Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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233. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of new premises available to order and passed under the national broadband plan; the number of new premises available to pre-order; the number of connections to date, by month, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4495/22]

Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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The National Broadband Plan (NBP) State led Intervention will be delivered by National Broadband Ireland (NBI) under a contract to roll out a high speed and future proofed broadband network within the Intervention Area which covers 1.1 million people living and working in the over 554,000 premises, including almost 100,000 businesses and farms along with some 679 schools. 

NBI has advised that as of 21 January almost 294,000 premises have been surveyed or have survey underway and over 154,000 premises are constructed or under construction across all counties, with over 54,400 premises available to order or pre-order across 21 counties. Over 34,000 premises have been passed with over 5,800 premises now connected across 11 counties: Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Galway, Kerry, Limerick, Louth, Monaghan, Roscommon and Tipperary. To date the level of connections on the NBI network are in line with, or exceeding projections.