National Broadband Plan
Dail Éireann — 2021-09-16
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Ossian Smyth (GP), Dún Laoghaire

There are four deployment areas covering Cork North-Central. It is a constituency with differences in that there are urban and rural areas. Of those deployment areas, one is to be completed by 2022, two by 2024 and the last by 2026. Surveys are ongoing across Cork county. It was homes in Cork that were connected first to the network. The nature of the deployment is that it starts at the metropolitan area network or at the exchange and is built out from there, so each section is done in sequence. I know the Department has been engaging to try to accelerate the process and to bring those in years six and seven into years four and five. That would change the deployment plan. The plan that is online at the moment where people can see when they are due is subject to change all the time. NBI will contact people if there are changes to that plan.

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Sitting date: 2021-09-16