Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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1475. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on a company's (details supplied) delivery of its concession agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38668/17]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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The Government's National Broadband Plan (NBP) will ensure high speed broadband access (minimum 30 megabits per second) to all premises in Ireland, regardless of location.  The NBP has been a catalyst in encouraging investment by the telecoms sector so that to date approximately 1.5m or 65% of the 2.3m premises in Ireland can get high speed broadband of a minimum of 30 Megabits per second and this footprint is expanding.

In April, eir signed a agreement with me committing them to follow through on their commercial plans to provide new high speed broadband infrastructure to 300,000 premises in rural areas.  eir has committed to doing this work over a 90 week period with an average of 500 premises passed per day.

Quarterly updates on progress of the eir 300k rollout are published on my Department’s website and a full set of county statistics are available at The Quarter 2 2017 figures have been verified by my Department and the eir rollout is in line with the Commitment Agreement.

In the period from December 2016 to the end of June 2017 a total of 70,324 premises were passed and 6,122 connections were made under eir’s rural deployment.