Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 March 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Fergal Mulligan:

Within the contract there is a balance to be struck where there is a one-off house a significant distance away from the next house. There is no point in bringing a fibre cable to that house if they never want it, the premises is a holiday home or the premises is dormant or vacant. There are contractual conditions in the contract that if a consumer does order, in that house that is far away or whatever, the contract with this company requires it to connect the consumer within a certain amount of time, and I think it is a number of weeks. So, we do not waste money building the fibre if it may never be needed. If they do need it then there is a contractual condition that they must connect it within a certain period of time.

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