National Broadband Plan: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2022-01-27
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Ossian Smyth (GP), Dún Laoghaire

Dublin is not excluded from the NBP. The NBP applies to anyone who cannot get 30 Mbps of broadband from a commercial provider, and that certainly applies to places such as Glencullen and Stepaside, and even more so in Fingal, north County Dublin. According to the figures in front of me, 3,604 premises in Dublin are under construction at the moment as part of the national broadband plan. Moreover, SIRO is quite active in those areas, working with the ESB and Vodafone. It has passed 400,000 homes and will connect a further 320,000 homes. Virgin Media is upgrading all 900,000 of its customers to fibre, while Eir has committed to upgrading hundreds of thousands more of its customers to fibre as well. The commercial area is expanding all the time at the edges of the city and, at the same time, the national broadband plan is open to anybody who cannot obtain a commercial service.

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Sitting date: 2022-01-27