Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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533. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the national broadband plan Bill; and his plans to pass this Bill in advance of awarding the national broadband plan contract. [43375/18]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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On 24 July 2018 Government approved the priority drafting of the National Broadband Plan Bill 2018. My Department is developing this legislation in consultation with the Office of Parliamentary Counsel in the Attorney General’s Office.

The NBP Bill is included in the Priority Legislation programme for the current Dáil Session 2018.