Terence Flanagan (Dublin North East, Independent)
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203. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21000/15]

Alex White (Dublin South, Labour)
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The National Broadband Plan aims to ensure that every citizen and business, regardless of location, has access to a high quality, high speed broadband service. This is being achieved through a partnership between Government and commercial telecommunications companies.

The commercial telecommunications sector is currently investing approximately €2.5 billion in network upgrades and enhanced services with approximately 1.6 million of the 2.3 million premises in Ireland expected to have access to commercial high speed broadband services over the next two years. These very significant investments represent a step-change in the quality of broadband services available.

Last November I published a national high speed coverage map for 2016. This map is available at . The areas marked BLUE represent those areas that will have access to commercial high speed broadband services by end 2016 and includes Saint Fintan’s Crescent, Sutton, Dublin.

I am aware from data provided to my Department to enable this map to be produced that UPC already have deployed Next Generation Access (NGA) services in the area. Additionally, data from eircom shows NGA coverage by mid-2016. I would suggest that residents in this area who have queries or issues in relation to their broadband service should directly contact the service providers in question.