Dáil Éireann Debate, Friday - 7 September 2018
1035. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to a submission by a club (details supplied) in County Kildare regarding the national broadband plan; the status of the plan in the context of another bidder withdrawing from the plan; the full cost to date of the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35671/18]
View answerI received a representation from the club referred to by the Deputy and a response to that representation has issued from my office. The club is in an AMBER area of the High Speed Broadband Map which is available at www.broadband.gov.ie and will therefore be served under the State led Intervention.
My Department is in a formal procurement process to select a company who will roll out a new high speed broadband network in the State intervention or AMBER area. That procurement process is in its closing stages.
Expenditure from 2013 to date by my Department with regard to the National Broadband Plan is €21,201,029, inclusive of VAT.
