Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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86. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a family (details supplied) cannot access their EIR connection due to their Eircode not being uploaded onto the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36331/24]

Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Ireland's Digital Connectivity Strategy, published by my Department, sets ambitious targets, which include providing a Gigabit network to all households and businesses in Ireland by 2028 and access to 5G in all populated areas by 2030.

The National Broadband Plan (NBP) is the government's initiative to deliver high speed broadband services to all premises in Ireland.

The Question refers to a premises located in the AMBER area on the broadband map, which is available on my Department's website at www.gov.ie/en/publication/5634d-national-broadband-plan-map/. The AMBER area is to be served by the network deployed under the NBP State led intervention.

Commercial Fixed line operators Open Eir, Virgin Media and SIRO are delivering high-speed broadband services in the blue area/non-intervention area of the map. The activities of commercial operators delivering high-speed broadband are not planned or funded by the State and the Department has no statutory authority to intervene in that regard.

This Eircode is a new build in the intervention area and is now included on the National Broadband Ireland (NBI) Map.

It is advisable, to all end users undertaking new builds in the intervention area that they apply for their Eircode as soon as possible because once their new build appears in the latest Geo-directory, it will be indexed to the NBI network at the next quarterly map update.

The latest information on when high-speed broadband will become available to this premises will be found on National Broadband Ireland’s website at //nbi.ie/map/.