695. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the area to be covered by the national broadband scheme will have to be modified in view of recent increases of coverage by telecommunications companies of rural areas and small towns with high speed broadband and their stated intention to increase this roll-out rapidly over 2017 and 2018; the delay a remapping exercise will cause to the tender process under the national broadband scheme; when it is hoped to have concluded this tender process; the projected date for the commencement of the roll-out of the national broadband scheme on the ground; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4606/17]

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695. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the area to be covered by the national broadband scheme will have to be modified in view of recent increases of coverage by telecommunications companies of rural areas and small towns with high speed broadband and their stated intention to increase this roll-out rapidly over 2017 and 2018; the delay a remapping exercise will cause to the tender process under the national broadband scheme; when it is hoped to have concluded this tender process; the projected date for the commencement of the roll-out of the national broadband scheme on the ground; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4606/17]

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