Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the progress of the implementation of the local Digital Strategy in each county as detailed under the National Broadband Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61850/22]

Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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While I do not have a direct role with respect to Local Digital Strategies, the deployment of high-speed fibre broadband networks under the National broadband Plan and through investment by commercial operators, will bring many new opportunities to communities to more fully participate in the Digital economy. Local Digital Strategies will bring a focus to how these fibre networks can be leveraged to the benefit of local communities. My Department has been advised by the Department of Rural and Community Development that 21 of the 31 Local Authorities have published their Local Digital Strategies and it I understand that it is expected that the remaining 10 will have an updated strategy published during the course of 2023.