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. T.J. Malone:
It is not just Eir that has to go back. What happens is that we have to go back to local authorities. Eir has to do so also. It has to get new road-opening licences if there are new works etc. We are working with the local authorities to try to speed up the turnaround of what are the equivalent of emergency-type licences. I will not call them emergency licences. We are working with Eir. In fairness to Eir, it has brought a number of the rapid-response crews. We continue to work with them to try to determine how to speed up the process. If we were in control of the self-install part ourselves, we could finish off a lot of that work as it comes up later in the programme. I am not referring to the main part alone because addressing those bits that come up would be a help.
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