Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 June 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)
Dr. Matt Yardley:
On the Deputy's question on timing, the €800 million was based on a model whereby we were renting a service to the 300,000 area where Eir was rolling out.
We were building thereafter. For the reasons I have given, that was felt later on not to be suitable. The cost went up because we were then building-----
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