Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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205. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to review the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11964/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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The National Broadband Plan (NBP) is the Government's initiative to deliver high speed broadband services to all premises in Ireland.

The premises in question is in the BLUE area on the broadband map which is available on my Department's website www.gov.ie/en/publication/5634d-national-broadband-plan-map/.

The BLUE area represents those areas where commercial providers are either currently delivering or have plans to deliver high-speed broadband services. The Department defines high-speed broadband as a connection with minimum speeds of 30 Mbps download and 6 Mbps upload.

The activities of commercial operators delivering high-speed broadband within BLUE areas are not planned or funded by the State and my Department has no statutory authority to intervene in that regard.

There may be a choice of operators offering this service in any given area. Further information in this regard is available at www.comreg.ie/compare/#/services.

If a person lives in the BLUE area and after contacting their Retail Service Provider are told they cannot get access to greater than 30Mbps, they should raise a query via the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) webform, at secure.dccae.gov.ie/forms/NBP-Customer-Service.aspx, and my Department will escalate with the commercial operator to investigate this matter further.

As per records online, the premises in question is a new build and has been included in open eir’s Full Fibre deployment programme which will provide a full fibre Gigabit connection. The process for this upgrade has already started in the area.

Barry Heneghan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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206. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for the installation of the fibre-to-the-home network (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11989/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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The National Broadband Plan (NBP) is the Government's initiative to deliver high speed broadband services to all premises in Ireland.

The Programme for Government – Securing Ireland’s Future published in January 2025 sets a number of targets which include the completion of the installation the infrastructure to allow access to a high-speed fibre broadband to 1.1 million people, including homes, farms, and businesses nationwide, by 2026.

The Clontarf area is in the BLUE area on the broadband map which is available on my Department's website www.gov.ie/en/publication/5634d-national-broadband-plan-map/.

The BLUE area represents those areas where commercial providers are either currently delivering or have plans to deliver high-speed broadband services. The Department defines high-speed broadband as a connection with minimum speeds of 30 Mbps download and 6 Mbps upload.

The activities of commercial operators delivering high-speed broadband within BLUE areas are not planned or funded by the State and the Department has no statutory authority to intervene in that regard.

There may be a choice of operators offering this service in any given area. Further information in this regard is available at www.comreg.ie/compare/#/services.

The Department does not have an estimated timeline of when commercial operators will provide a full fibre Gigabit connection to the Clontarf area, other than what’s on the Open eir messaging (ie some point between now and 2026, when the programme is due to conclude).

If a person lives in the BLUE area and after contacting their Retail Service Provider are told they cannot get access to greater than 30Mbps, they should raise a query via the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) webform, at secure.dccae.gov.ie/forms/NBP-Customer-Service.aspx, and the Department will escalate with the commercial operator to investigate this matter further.