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Huge setbacks for broadband rollout in Donegal Posted: 12:28 pm June 10, 2021
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THE rollout of the National Broadband Plan in Donegal is facing major setbacks with the pandemic being blamed for targets being missed. The Letterkenny and Creeslough areas have moved to the design phase of the project but many areas are facing delays.
The Government has been criticised once again for the slow rollout of the National Broadband Plan in Donegal.
Donegal Deputy Thomas Pringle told Minister Eamon Ryan this week that the county cannot remain ‘the forgotten county’ in broadband rollout.
Latest figures reveal that just 4,042 of 178,000 premises in Donegal have been surveyed as part of the initiative.
Speaking in the Dail, Deputy Pringle accused Minister Ryan and his Department of not doing their job: