National Broadband Plan
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-08
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Ossian Smyth (GP), Dún Laoghaire

Starting with Louth, as I said, 3,334 homes out of 8,837 have been passed, making it the number one county in Ireland for connections. For those who need connection and do not yet have it, and have been waiting for three or more years, we have provided information on the website. We want to be honest and let people know they will have to make other arrangements. The three technologies available are fixed wireless access, 5G or satellite connection for somebody who needs to have something and cannot have fibre to a cabinet or whatever is being provided at the moment.
In response to Deputy Ó Murchú, I am considering various options including speeding up Eir Make Ready, self install and so on to see what we can do to reduce the time. I expect to have an announcement on that soon.
In response to Deputy Murnane O'Connor, I acknowledge that she has come to me a number of times on a particular case. I will come back to her. I have been to Carlow and went to connect the 15,000th customer. I commit to helping the Deputy with each customer she mentioned.

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Sitting date: 2022-11-08