Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 December 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund

9:00 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

We started the procurement process in December 2016 and set the basic benchmark of 30 Mbps. If we had started a little bit later, we would have set the benchmark higher, but we are getting it anyway through what all the bidders came forward with, which is fibre to the home. Every other single member state, I think I can say with certainty, right across Europe, is behind us and they are all going for a fibre to the home solution complemented by 5G. Some of the member states that got a little bit ahead of us are now redoing what they did because they did not pitch the level of technology sufficiently high. Fibre to the home is the solution and would be the solution if we went to the market today.

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