David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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216. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the details of a new build premises (details supplied) are expected to be formally transmitted by his Department to National Broadband Ireland (NBI) for inclusion under the National Broadband Plan rollout; when he expects the premises to be connected to the NBI network thereafter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13815/23]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The High-Speed Broadband Map, which is available at www.broadband.gov.ie, shows the areas included in the National Broadband Plan (NBP) State led intervention as well as areas targeted by commercial operators. The map is colour-coded and searchable by address and Eircode. Premises in the AMBER area will be provided with high-speed broadband through the State led Intervention. The BLUE area represents those areas where commercial providers are either currently delivering or have plans to deliver high speed broadband services.

Commercial operators have recently indicated their plans to supply Gigabit services to all premises in the BLUE area of the NBP Map as part of their commercial network rollouts. However, due to the specifics of this premises, in terms of its location and high-speed broadband provision in the surrounding areas it has been decided that this premises will be reclassified and served by NBI under the National Broadband Plan.

The premises referred to in the question is indicated as being in the BLUE area however, a detailed analysis undertaken by the Department’s technical team has confirmed that this premises is not currently capable of obtaining high-speed broadband through commercial means. As a result this premises needs to be reclassified and this process requires a formal change followed by an update to broadband maps. Fibre broadband should be available to order within 6 months of the premises appearing on the NBI broadband map.