Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of amber premises for the State intervention area, blue premises to be covered by commercial operators and light blue premises, respectively to be covered by Eir under the national broadband plan; the number of premises that have been connected under the plan for each such category by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40571/18]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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In April 2017 I published an updated High Speed Broadband Map which is available at . 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 Intervention Area under the National Broadband Plan.

The Map is colour coded and searchable by address/eircode:

- The AMBER areas represent the target areas for the proposed State led Intervention under the NBP and are the subject of an ongoing procurement process.

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

- The LIGHT BLUE areas represent eir's commercial rural deployment plans to rollout high speed broadband to 300,000 premises as part of a Commitment Agreement signed with me in April 2017. Approximately 175,000 of the committed premises have been passed as of Q2 2018.

I attach a table which outlines the number of premises in each of these categories on a National and County by County basis as of Q2 2018.

My Department does not receive detailed information on connections to premises from industry, other than those related to eir’s ongoing commercial deployment. According to the latest figures supplied to my Department by the company, some 37,000 premises have been connected to the new network.

The Commission for Communications Regulation, ComReg, publishes a quarterly key data report on the telecommunications industry in Ireland. The Q2 2018 report, attached, contains information on connections which may be of interest to the Deputy.