Donna McGettigan (Clare, Sinn Fein)
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444. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the internet infrastructure will be upgraded in an area (details supplied) in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56587/25]

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 (HSBB) within BLUE areas are not planned or funded by the State and the Department has no statutory authority to intervene in that regard.

The premises in question is currently capable of receiving 68 Mbps from open eir’s local High Speed Broad cabinet per information available at .

The premises is also included in open eir’s Full Fibre to the Home (FTTH) deployment programme per information available at . The Department does not have sight of information that provides an estimated timeline of when open eir will provide a full fibre connection. However, my officials have contacted open eir to enquire about the expected timeframe for connecting this premises to their fibre network and have been advised that it is anticipated that FTTH will be available to this premises by the end of 2026.

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.