Written answers
Wednesday, 9 July 2025
Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Infrastructure
Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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78. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to include a property (details supplied) in the intervention (amber) area for fibre broadband; when this property will receive fibre broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37984/25]
Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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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 .
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 30Mbps download and 6Mbps 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.
As per information available at www.openeir.ie/fibre/broadband-checker the premises can currently receive high speed broadband from local retail service providers (RSPs) via the Open Eir copper network and is also included in open eir Full Fibre deployment programme. The Department does not have sight of information that provides an estimated timeline of when commercial operators will provide a full fibre connection to the area, other than what’s on the Open Eir messaging.
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 webform which can be accessed by clicking on “contact us” in the Contact section on and the Department will escalate with the commercial operator to investigate this matter further.
Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update on the provision of fibre broadband to a property (details supplied); the reasons for the ongoing delays in the rollout of the National Broadband Plan at this location which was originally scheduled for October 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37989/25]
Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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The Question refers to a premises located in the AMBER area on the National Broadband Plan (NBP) High Speed Broadband Map which is available on my Department's website www.broadband.gov.ie
The AMBER area represents the area to be served by the network to be deployed under the NBP State led intervention.
NBI have advised that the premises in question is included in the Dowra Deployment Area (DA). NBI have stated the initial anticipated timeframe for connection published in Q3 of 2021 was January 2025- December 2026.
In Q4 2024, NBI updated this timeframe to July 2026 - December 2026 which still falls within the initial anticipated timeframe for connection. NBI provides the public with indicative rollout dates, based on the best information available at any given time.
NBI has stated the route of the network rollout is not based on cost or an economic model. Instead, it is based on an engineering design that allows NBI to get to every premises as quickly as possible, working within the confines of how fibre networks are built and utilising existing infrastructure wherever possible.
The latest information on when high-speed broadband will become available to this premises can be found on National Broadband Ireland’s (NBI) website at . This website is regularly updated providing the expected timeline for delivery and status of any works that are initiated at any point in time. NBI also has a dedicated email address, reps@nbi.ie, which can be used by Oireachtas members for specific queries.
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