Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 22 January 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment

1:00 pm

Mr. Mark Griffin:

Some 298 broadband connection points were envisaged in year 1 of the contract. Year 1 extends from January 2020 to January 2021. Forty-seven of them withdrew. That is entirely a matter for the original project promotee, if I can use that term. Twenty-two were added. The net figure was then 273. Of the 273, 247 have been connected, with the balance to be connected by the end of January. We think we are in good shape in meeting the target of 273. Among the 273 connections, 73 are for schools. The issue of penalties does not arise because the original target of 298 has been stepped back on the basis of a number of entities that put them forward as broadband connection points having withdrawn from the process.

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