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:

Sure. A lot of those are the final bits and piece of the jigsaw, as I said. When we are out on the road, by and large we are getting the vast majority of the work built. It is now about finishing off those final bits and pieces and the things we have encountered out on the ground. It may be the case we need to go back to local authorities to get licences or we have to go back to Eir and get more make ready work done. With that in mind, the main Eir Make Ready juggernaut is working through, and when they have finished their part, they go out of that area and into another area. If we then come across a situation that happens on the ground, it can be problematic to try to get the crews back to finish off bits and pieces. At the end of November we agreed with Eir we would get pointed crews, or what we call rapid response crews, back in. Now, instead of taking from the main go-forward crews who are doing the rest of the make ready work, a rapid response crew will come in and we can specifically point them towards cleaning up the last bits of the jigsaw and finish them out.

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