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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: Are those the big ones population-wise or electorally?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: Will Mr. Brown circulate that to the committee after the meeting because many people would be interested in those timelines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: Before bringing in the Department of Social Protection to respond to Deputy Ó Cuív, I welcome the students and staff from Ardscoil Phádraig, Granard, County Longford, to the committee meeting. We are talking about broadband, of all things. I am sure it is of as much interest in County Longford as in other parts of the country. I hope the students and staff get to see some of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: What might be helpful is this. I do not want to put Mr. O’Brien on the spot, but we have a Supplementary Estimate next week. He might ask his colleagues to provide a note in advance of us considering that Supplementary Estimate in order to allow Deputy Ó Cuív to bring up that specific issue when we have the Minister here in order to get further clarity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: Did Mr. Whelan want to come in? No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: Very briefly because we are running tight on time and I have one or two questions I want to ask.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: That is about 750,000 people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: This is an issue the committee needs to return to because it is a broader one and we do not have the relevant players in front of us, although I will come back to it later. Deputy Ó Cuív is correct about population coverage. Coverage of 70% equates to 322 towns and cities. That is all it is. Three Ireland is on 85%, which is a bit higher than that. Even so, we are ignoring...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: We will come back to this-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: I want the Deputy to keep his powder dry on that because it is one we will come back to. I know well that students from County Longford will also be interested in questions about mobile phone coverage in north Longford. I have a couple of questions, and I am going to start at European level and come back to local level. Legally, the definition of high-speed broadband is 30 Mbps, which is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: I can tell Mr. Hendrick that there is one that is not on that list but should be, namely, Cloonakilla National School in south Roscommon. It is getting 4 Mbps at the moment, but it is blue on the national broadband plan, which means it is, in theory, able to get a high-speed broadband connection through the Open Eir network. Funnily enough, the houses on either side of the school are part...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: Yes. I ask the officials to address that as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: Will that be by 2030?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: The difficulty is that, at that stage, it is hoped every single person will, if NBI meets its targets, already have a fibre connection in the more peripheral areas. I am talking about in the interim. The difficulty is the 24-month implementation. The reality is the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications has not been exactly sharp in terms of delivering on those targets....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: That is no good to the people in the reddish brown area today who are now going to have to wait till 2028 to get a decent service.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: Being passed is great but connecting them is the problem.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: Mr. Mulligan was not the only one who was surprised about it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: Ms Collins wanted to come in there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: Templemore, Lusk in north Dublin, and Kells in County Meath.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion (15 Nov 2023)
Denis Naughten: I thank the witnesses for their time. There has been a dramatic ramping up of the delivery of broadband infrastructure, both wired and wireless, over the past number of years. I acknowledge that this is down to the efforts of each and every witness and the teams they represent here. We have come a long way from the discussions we have had in the committee previously on meeting targets for...