Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 19 January 2010
916 Deputy Joe McHugh asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when broadband will be available in an area (details supplied) in County Donegal in view of the details of his response to a parliamentary question in October 2009 on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1027/10]
View answerThe information provided by the Deputy relates to the commercial operations of a private company, in this case, the planned enablement of an exchange by eircom. This is a matter for the company and I am not in a position to comment on it.
In my reply to the Deputy on 3 November 2009 I set out that the area of St. Johnston, County Donegal, would receive broadband under the National Broadband Scheme, (NBS). It is still the case that is not possible to predict when precisely broadband services under this Scheme will become available in this area. Under the contract with my Department, the service provider, "3", must complete the rollout to all NBS areas by end September 2010. The current status of each area to be covered by the NBS is available at www.three.ie/nbs.
