Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 229: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the timetable for the north east broadband ring proposal for County Louth, in particular the installation timetable and order of installation in the towns of Dundalk, Drogheda and Ardee. [15280/04]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy will be aware that in April 2004 I announced the go ahead for the construction of a metropolitan area network in the six north eastern towns. This project is now at the planning stage. The MANs will be built in Dundalk, Drogheda, Kingscourt, Carrickmacross, Monaghan and Cavan. Construction of the Drogheda and Dundalk MANs will commence later this year.

I recently announced the rollout of broadband to more 90 additional towns with a population of 1,500 and over. These towns will be provided with broadband in a three-year programme between now and 2006. Ardee is one of the towns listed.