Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 17 February 2021
64. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will have regard to correspondence on whether a system can be devised to remove a person (details supplied) from an intervention area if they so wish. [8884/21]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe High Speed Broadband Map, which is available at www.broadband.gov.ie, shows the areas which will be included in the National Broadband Plan (NBP) State led intervention as well as areas targeted by commercial operators. The map is colour coded and searchable by address and Eircode.
Premises in the AMBER area will be provided with high speed broadband through the State led Intervention, the contract for which was signed in November last with National Broadband Ireland (NBI). The BLUE area represents those areas where commercial providers are either currently delivering or have plans to deliver high speed broadband services.
The premises referred to in the Question is located in the AMBER area on the High Speed Broadband Map in close proximity to the eir 300k rural fibre to the home rollout. The eir network serves the villages of Ballynoe and Conna, but only serves a small number of the premises between the two villages. While the NBP intervention is designed so as to ensure that no premises is left behind, the inclusion of a premises in the Amber area of the NBP map does not prevent a commercial operator from providing a high speed broadband service to the premises. What it indicates is that no commercial provider currently offers such a service, or has demonstrated a plan to provide this service and in these circumstances, the premises is included in the planned NBP network so as to ensure that access to a high speed broadband service will be provided in the future. Where appropriate, the NBP map may be revised to include or exclude additional premises.
