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. Fergal Mulligan:

I can answer this. HEAnet, through the Department of Education, manages and monitors all the networks through the schools to ensure that none of that happens. Regardless of the contract with NBI, that is their role. With regard to the build-out of schools, NBI is fully responsible for all 679 schools. Through that contract with us and NBI, NBI then procures different companies across different parts of Ireland to help them to roll that out, whether its Enet, Viatel or Ripplecom. Many companies offer it. At the moment, the majority of schools and BCPs are using an 8.5 high-spec wireless link until the fibre network is fully deployed across the relevant areas. We should not forget that the schools' BCP initiative was an initiative to get as much done as quickly as possible in every part of Ireland, before the full fibre is rolled out over the next seven years.

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