Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 November 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes

9:30 am

Ms Oonagh Buckley:

As you have just noted, to some degree, although Mr. Mulligan is shaking his head, so I do not want to misspeak, where we are at in terms of ramping up, there are constraints in the way the broadband was being rolled out. One of the constraints, obviously, was making sure a sufficient number of poles were put up. To get that working smoothly took some time over 2021 and 2022, to iron out the wrinkles that post-dated the Covid space. We are in a very different place in 2023. They are now exceeding where they were forecast to be in 2023. They were due to be at 185,000 premises passed by the end of January next year, but we have over 200,000 at this point, so it will be a very substantially changed picture this year compared with last year.

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