Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 January 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland

Mr. Peter Hendrick:

What it does give is predictability in resourcing. As of this week, we will have around 6,000 homes connected and about 8,000 in total, when you take orders into account. We have 2,000 orders ready to connect on premises that we have allowed to pre-order. At the beginning of December, we released new premises, signalling that we were available to start connecting homes. In two and a half weeks, we connected 1,398 homes because we were able to see the pre-orders. We obviously have to account for homes that order just as we have passed them as well, but we were able to resource up both in terms of materials and our contractors in terms of connecting those homes. All across the country, we are seeing a volume. Typically, right now it is about 30% take-up in the first six months.

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