# national-broadband-plan - Thursday 16 January, 2020
300 Broadband Connection Points are due to be set up in GAA clubs, community centres and public libraries.
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# national-broadband-plan - Tuesday 19 November, 2019
The cabinet met this morning to facilitate signing off on the multi-billion euro plan.
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# national-broadband-plan - Friday 15 November, 2019
The decision means the contract for the €3 billion plan can be signed.
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# national-broadband-plan - Tuesday 27 August, 2019
Fianna Fáil’s Timmy Dooley said the decision to proceed is a matter for government.
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# national-broadband-plan - Saturday 24 August, 2019
The fees were paid to firms for advice given from 2013 to date.
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# national-broadband-plan - Wednesday 21 August, 2019
Government sources state that more delays will come at further extra costs.
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# national-broadband-plan - Tuesday 20 August, 2019
The project which will see the roll-out of a State-subsidised broadband service across the country.
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# national-broadband-plan - Thursday 25 July, 2019
Watt caused controversy recently when documents warning the government against proceeding with the NBP were published.
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# national-broadband-plan - Wednesday 17 July, 2019
The company’s CEO raised the alternative cost at an Oireachtas committee last month.
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# national-broadband-plan - Monday 8 July, 2019
Eir’s CEO told an Oireachtas committee recently that it could deliver the NBP for less than €1 billion.
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# national-broadband-plan - Wednesday 3 July, 2019
Eir’s CEO said last week that it could deliver the NBP for far less than the approved bidder.
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# national-broadband-plan - Wednesday 26 June, 2019
The company’s CEO Carolan Lennon has said Eir could implement the National Broadband Plan for less than €1 billion.
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# national-broadband-plan - Tuesday 25 June, 2019
Government announced that it is to proceed with its plans for the €3 billion NBP
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# national-broadband-plan - Saturday 22 June, 2019
Documents released under FOI show how members of the Cabinet privately raised concerns about the plan.
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# national-broadband-plan - Tuesday 18 June, 2019
Robert Watt warned ‘strongly recommended against’ the decision to proceed with the NBP.
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# national-broadband-plan - Tuesday 14 May, 2019
National Broadband Ireland – set up by investors Granahan McCourt – said this initial investment is “at risk first”.
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# national-broadband-plan - Saturday 11 May, 2019
The former minister took part in a heated debate on RTÉ’s Saturday with Katie Hannon this afternoon.
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# national-broadband-plan - Wednesday 8 May, 2019
The government has finally approved the National Broadband Plan.
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Minister Paschal Donohoe has told the Dáil that no projects would be delayed or in risk because of the plan.
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The broadband plan will cost €3 billion.
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Cabinet yesterday signed off on the National Broadband Plan.
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# national-broadband-plan - Tuesday 7 May, 2019
The first homes will be connected next year, but some will be waiting up to seven years for broadband.
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Opposition parties claim the plan is not good value for money.
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# national-broadband-plan - Friday 26 April, 2019
The plan aims to bring high-speed internet to smaller towns and one-off homes around Ireland.
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# national-broadband-plan - Sunday 10 March, 2019
The National Broadband Plan was due to be finished next year – but work is yet to even start.
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# national-broadband-plan - Wednesday 27 February, 2019
The Taoiseach said he will make a decision on the final bidder before Easter.
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# national-broadband-plan - Saturday 23 February, 2019
Seven years after it was announced, there’s still little clarity on the cost – or the size – of the long-awaited rural broadband network.
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# national-broadband-plan - Thursday 6 December, 2018
That was according to the Secretary General of the Department of Communications Mark Griffin.
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# national-broadband-plan - Tuesday 4 December, 2018
Former minister Denis Naughten also addressed the Dáil this evening.
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# national-broadband-plan - Tuesday 27 November, 2018
The review relied on statements by Naughten, David McCourt and others as no formal minutes were taken at these meetings.
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# national-broadband-plan - Friday 19 October, 2018
Denis Naughten resigned last week over revelations that he met with the businessman four times.
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# national-broadband-plan - Thursday 18 October, 2018
The Taoiseach believes Breen’s involvement is not a resigning matter.
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# national-broadband-plan - Wednesday 17 October, 2018
The review follows the resignation of Denis Naughten as Communications Minister over his dinners with David McCourt.
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# national-broadband-plan - Tuesday 16 October, 2018
Taoiseach repeated today that he did not think it was a resigning matter.
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# national-broadband-plan - Friday 12 October, 2018
Pressure has been mounting on Breen to clarify the nature of his meetings with McCourt.
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# national-broadband-plan - Thursday 11 October, 2018
Naughten resigned as Communications Minister earlier today.
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Richard Bruton is to take over the role of Communications Minister temporarily.
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He made the announcement in the Dáil this afternoon.
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Naughten has been under pressure after it emerged he attended a dinner with David McCourt in July.
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# national-broadband-plan - Wednesday 10 October, 2018
The contract for the plan is estimated to be worth up to half a billion euro.
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