Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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506. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the townlands in County Meath in which there will be State intervention under the national broadband plan. [41856/17]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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In April I published an updated High Speed Broadband Map which is available at www.broadband.gov.ie.  This map shows the areas targeted by commercial operators to provide high speed broadband services and the areas that will be included in the State led Intervention under the National Broadband Plan (NBP). The Map is searchable by eircode.

-  The BLUE areas on the Map 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 Map represent the areas that will require State Intervention and are the subject of a procurement process.

The map provides  information on a county by county basis with a breakdown of coverage across the townlands in every county including County Meath.  Over 50,000 townlands and 2.3 million premises have been identified.  Information on county coverage and related statistics is available on my Department's website.

The updated Map shows that of the 83,115 premises in County Meath, 77% of those premises are in the BLUE areas and will be served by commercial operators. The remaining 23% (c. 19,000) of premises are in the AMBER areas and are to be served by the State led Intervention.

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