Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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82. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason areas of the national broadband map are blue in areas of the country that denote rivers and forests indicating they are supported by companies yet the houses next to the blue areas are amber and are not supported by broadband such as in Cloyne, County Cork. [41962/17]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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The Deputy may be aware that all premises, regardless of location, are targeted to receive broadband under the National Broadband Plan. The high speed broadband Map, which can be accessed on my Department's at www.broadband.gov.ie, shows all premises to be covered under the Plan, which include State Intervention and commercial investment.

The Map is colour coded Amber for areas to be covered by the State rollout and Blue for areas where commercial operators are delivering or have indicated plans to deliver high speed broadband services.  Light Blue areas on the Map include homes and businesses to be served under eir's rural planned deployment broadband to 300,000 premises by the end of 2018.  By necessity, the map will include the geographical spread of Ireland - townlands, rivers, lakes etc.  The townland of Townparks, (ed Cloyne) comprise a mix of premises to be covered by either commercial or state led intervention and are colour coded accordingly.