Maeve O'Connell
Question:264. Deputy Maeve O'Connell asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the timeframe for the National Broadband Plan to complete national high speed broadband coverage. [72795/25]
View answerWednesday, 17 December 2025
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The National Broadband Plan (NBP) is the Government's initiative to deliver high speed broadband services to all premises in Ireland. I am advised by National Broadband Ireland (NBI) that there are over 564,000 premises in the Intervention Area (IA) and design work has been completed for 100% of these. NBI anticipated they would pass 420,000 premises by the end of 2025. NBI have exceeded that figure in already passing over 439,700 premises in the intervention area and are connecting on average 4,500 premises to their fibre network per month.
NBI also advise that 450,950 premises, across all counties in mainly rural areas, can now order or pre-order broadband and over 158,050 premises are already connected.
Based on current plans and achievements, the Department expect to deliver the deployment of the NBP by the end of 2026, as per the Programme for Government commitment.
Further details are available on specific counties and areas which can be monitored via nbi.ie/reps. NBI has a dedicated email address, reps@nbi.ie, which can be used by Oireachtas members for specific queries.