Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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284. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the number of premises forecast to be covered by the national broadband plan and by commercial high speed broadband services, by county, in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8028/17]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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The High Speed Broadband Map, which is available at www.broadband.gov.ie shows the extent of the commercial rollout and the State Intervention area. The areas marked BLUE represent those areas where commercial providers are either currently delivering or have plans to deliver high speed broadband services. The Department continues to monitor the commercial deployment plans in the BLUE area where commercial operators have committed to providing services, to ensure that those services are delivered. The areas marked AMBER on the High Speed Broadband Map represent the target areas for the State Intervention.

Information on a county by county basis with a breakdown of coverage across the townlands in every county is available on my Department’s website at www.dccae.gov.ie/communications/en-ie/Broadband/Pages/County-and-Townland-Maps.aspx and I will arrange for a single summary table to be included at this link with the total number of premises in each individual county. 

My Department will shortly update the High Speed Broadband map to finalise the Intervention Area for the Procurement process, taking into account industry investments that have not materialised in Blue areas, together with new industry investments within the proposed State Intervention Area, along with concrete and credible commitments by industry for further new investments within the Intervention Area.