Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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509. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes in the amber areas of the national broadband map as of January 2018, by county, in tabular form. [5689/18]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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According to my Department's High Speed Broadband Map, available at www.broadband.gov.ie, there are 537,587 premises in the AMBER area of the map. The AMBER areas represent the target areas for the proposed State led Intervention under the NBP and locked in the Map as of April 2017 as part of the ongoing procurement process.

A county by county breakdown of premises in the AMBER area is in the following table:

Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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510. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes that are still awaiting a broadband connection in the light blue areas of the national broadband map as of January 2018, by county, in tabular form. [5690/18]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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In April 2017, eir signed a commitment agreement to provide high speed broadband to 300,000 premises. Deployment figures for Q4 2017 have not yet been verified by my Department’s team. However, eir has informed my Department that they have passed a total of approximately 121,000 premises as of December 2017.

A county by county breakdown of premises in the LIGHT BLUE area is in the table.  These are the number of premises yet to be passed by eir in its deployment.  These figures are reflective of the county statistics on my Department's website (www.dccae.gov.ie) and are correct to September 2017.  December 2017 figures will be updated shortly.