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. Patrick Neary:

In 2013, we sent out an information request to every operator in the country asking for an initial view of where they had coverage the nature of the coverage. Through 2014, we developed criteria and a standard and held two consultations to inform that to indicate whether there should be a high-speed broadband service or not. At the end of 2014, we published an initial view of the area. That contained 757,000 premises. We looked for views from operators-----

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