Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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616. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 284 of 16 February 2017, the number of premises forecasted to be covered by the national broadband plan and by commercial high-speed broadband services, inclusive of the further 170,000 premises that are currently marked blue on the high-speed broadband map and which are unlikely to get access to services, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16215/17]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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Today the 4th April, I formally published an updated High Speed Broadband Map which is available at . The updated Map shows the following categories of areas for delivery of broadband:

- The BLUE areas represent those areas where commercial telecommunications providers are either currently delivering or have indicated plans to deliver high speed broadband services,

- The AMBER areas on the High Speed Broadband Map represent the areas that will require State Intervention and are the subject of the current procurement process.

My Department has developed coverage maps on a county basis including information on the townlands in each county. Over 50,000 townlands and 2.3 million premises have been identified. Information on county coverage including townland statistics in each province is available on my Department’s website.

The updated Map shows that there are approximately 1.8m premises in the BLUE areas, representing 77% of the total premises in Ireland. The remaining 23%, which comprises some 542,000 premises are in the AMBER areas and are expected to be served by the State Intervention.

It is intended that all premises will have access to services of at least 30 Megabits per second when the procurement process is completed and the network rolled out.