Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 February 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters

9:30 am

Mr. Peter Hendrick:

We have not. When we look at encroachment, we estimate a potential overbuild of 31,000 premises by Eir in the NBP area. Ultimately, the overall number of premises in the NBP area has gone up. There may be cost savings in terms of building out or not passing some of the homes, but we find that although commercial operators may have passed a home, it is a question of whether they can actually afford to connect it. Are they asking the consumer to spend thousands of euro to get the connection from wherever-----

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