Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Carolan Lennon:

We are applying the same rules, but it is not the same costs. The 300,000 we picked absolutely were the next most commercially viable. We have never apologised for that. We were asked by the Department where we were going to roll it out commercially and we told everybody. That is absolutely the case. As for whether the Department took revenue out of the NBP business case, yes, but it should also have taken cost out. The revenue was taken out but the cost was not. We are not saying it will cost us the same to pass a home in the intervention footprint, what we are saying is we will do all the things the same that we did in the 300,000. We will charge the same connection charge. We will charge the same connection criteria, overhead rather than underground. We will use the poles and ducts

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