Shane McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Question 1544: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the availability of broadband across County Meath in percentage terms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31792/10]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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ComReg's website www.callcosts.ie provides detailed information on the various private sector telecommunications products and services available on a county by county basis. More generally, the provision of broadband services is in the first instance a matter for private sector service providers.

Government does however, intervene in the market in instances of clear market failure, as in the case of the National Broadband Scheme (NBS). Details of all the areas to be covered by the NBS, including the current status of the NBS rollout, are available at www.three.ie/nbs. Under the NBS contract, all Electoral Divisions (EDs) in the NBS Coverage Area must have broadband coverage by late October 2010. With particular reference to County Meath, all of the designated 18 EDs within the County can now avail of NBS broadband services. The following table lists all of these 18 EDs.