Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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279. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre broadband be available to homes in the town of Dromahair, as it currently only has fibre to cabinet, and requires fibre cables to be installed from cabinet to homes. [51089/25]

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.

Dromahair is predominantly 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 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 area is included in open eir’s Full Fibre deployment programme which will provide a full fibre Gigabit connection and some 46% premises in the area have already been passed by open eir and can now order full fibre gigabit connection with speeds up to 2Gbps.

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 remaining premises in Dromahair, 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 Department's 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.

12% of premises in the locality of Dromahair are in the Intervention Area serviced by National Broadband Ireland (NBI) and can obtain speeds of at least 500mbps at present. Premises located in the Intervention Area on the broadband map are to be served by the network deployed under the NBP State led intervention. NBI have advised that these premises are ready for service.