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National Broadband Plan

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 3 February 2021

Wednesday, 3 February 2021

Questions (55)

Catherine Murphy

Question:

55. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the price per connection paid to National Broadband Ireland in respect of connections made in the intervention areas; and the capital subsidy in addition to the fee per connection. [5360/21]

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The National Broadband Plan (NBP) State led Intervention will be delivered by National Broadband Ireland (NBI) under a contract to roll out a high speed and future proofed broadband network within the Intervention Area which covers 1.1 million people living and working in the over 544,000 premises, including almost 100,000 businesses and farms along with 695 schools. The deployment plan forecasts construction commenced in all counties within the first 2 years and over 90% of premises in the State having access to high speed broadband within the next four years. I am advised by National Broadband Ireland (NBI) that, as of 22 January 2021, over 166,000 premises across all counties have been surveyed and build work is ongoing in Counties, Cavan, Cork, Galway and Limerick, with the first connections recently made in Carrigaline, Co Cork.  

NBI may charge retail service providers a maximum of €100 per connection to the NBP network. The NBP contract provides that an element of the approved subsidy will be paid to NBI when connections to premises have been made and are verified. The precise details of the amount to be paid to NBI per connection has not been released as this would not be in the public interest, where this information is considered commercially sensitive and could impact on sub-contractor pricing negotiations.

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