Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir
Ms Carolan Lennon:
No, because that is National Broadband Ireland's project now. You said we discontinued. We did not discontinue.
We signed a contract with the then Minister to do 300,000 rural homes. We actually did 340,000. When we finished that project, there was a tender and NBI won the tender. It is now NBI's role to do that intervention. I get emails from Members and customers about this every day but we have finished our roll-out in rural Ireland. We are supporting NBI by getting our duct and pole infrastructure ready for it. We will continue to do that, but we are now building a national network across the rest of the country and that is where our network teams have gone. It is now NBI's role to take this up and fill those gaps.
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