Cormac Devlin
Question:73. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of the roll-out of the national broadband plan. [12894/21]
View answerWednesday, 10 March 2021
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Design work is complete or ongoing under the National Broadband Plan in target townlands across every county in Ireland with nearly 187,000 premises surveyed as of 3 March 2021.
This survey work is feeding into detailed designs for each deployment area and the first fibre to the home connections have been made in Carrigaline, Co Cork and in Cavan. Technical testing and validation continues prior to a wider release of the area. Since 25 January 2021 retailers are able to resell the service and householders in these areas can order high speed broadband provided via the NBI network
Further details are available on specific areas through the NBI website which provides a facility for any premises within the intervention area to register their interest in being provided with deployment updates through its website www.nbi.ie. Individuals who register with this facility will receive regular updates on progress by NBI on delivering the network and specific updates related to their own premises when works are due to commence.
Broadband Connection Points (BCPs) are a key element of the NBP providing high speed broadband in every county in advance of the roll out of the fibre to the home network. As of 3 March 287 BCP sites have been installed by NBI and will be connected with high speed publicly accessible broadband through a service provider contract managed by the Department of Rural and Community Development and by the Department of Education for schools. NBI have agreed to accelerate the rollout of high speed broadband to some 679 primary schools by the end of 2022.
Question No. 74 answered with Question No. 72.