Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 October 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites

9:30 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

The money paid in 2020 was about €42.5 million. That is spread across a number of contract milestones and would include payments for procurement of materials, such as fibre, payment of contractors and subcontractors and payments for the survey and design work on the network. As I mentioned, we have 250,000 premises surveyed on current figures and 220,000 designs.

Those are the current figures. Moneys would have been paid for the successful completion of deployment areas. In addition, as I mentioned, 110,000 premises are under construction, 7,000 premises are ready for service, a further 10,000 are at the pre-order stage and 376 BCPs have been connected. Effectively, therefore, that is payment for work done and as set out in the contract, which clearly defines what the company gets paid for.

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