Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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866. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of homes which are passed but not connected to high speed broadband under the concession agreement announced on 6 August 2017; the number of these homes that have requested a connection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45850/18]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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Under a Commitment Agreement signed with my Department in April 2017, eir is in the process of passing 300,000 predominantly rural homes with high speed broadband. According to data for Q3 2018 submitted by eir to my Department the company has passed almost 210,000 premises nationwide as part of its ongoing deployment. This data is to be published on my Department’s website shortly. Under the terms of the Commitment Agreement, where eir has passed a premises with high speed broadband and has received a request for connection, it is required to provide 95% of such requests with a connection at the standard published connection charge within 20 working days of receipt of the request.

Details of the number of connections are published on my Department’s website, under ‘eir Commitment Agreement – Progress Update Q2 2018’,  at the following link:

The details show that as of Q2 2018, 37,000 premises have been connected, based on just over 175,000 premises passed at that point.