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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 23rd, 2017

QUESTION NO.17

QUESTION: Councillor D. Richardson

That this Council do a feasibility study to providing broadband in our County to make WI-FI accessible to all our citizens in public areas in our County. 

REPLY:

The Council are currently recruiting a Broadband Officer, who will have a task amongst others of preparing a Digital Strategy for the county.  This will incorporate an analysis of broadband provision within the County and will detail working with the relevant operators to remediate and resolve areas of poor availability and/or coverage.

By means of context, the elected members will be aware that the Council has supported significant roll out of Wi-Fi throughout the county under villages and other initiatives.  Our current list of Wifi enabled locations are;

Wifi in our Villages

Roll out of free WI-FI to our villages in conjunction with local business communities has been completed and are operational in the following areas:

• Tallaght
• Rathcoole
• Palmerstown
• Saggart
• Clondalkin
• Lucan
• Templeogue
• Rathfarnham
• Newcastle 

All SDCC Libraries:

• County Library
• Castletymon Library
• Whitechurch Library
• Ballyroan Library
• Lucan Library
• Clondalkin Library
• Stewarts Hospital Library & Coach House - 2 WAPs
• Palmerstown Library / Digital Hub 

Community Centres:

• Brookfield Youth & Community Centre 

Other:

• South Dublin County Council HQ Building - various locations
• Clondalkin Civic Offices
• Civic Theatre
• Tallaght Stadium
• Grange Castle Golf Club
• Corkagh Park
• Round Tower Clondalkin 

Public Wi-Fi facilities are available at all of the above locations, free of charge to public users.