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. T.J. Malone:

We are constantly looking at it. As I said, we probably have almost 300,000 surveyed at this stage and nearly half of the network designed. It is only when we get the low-level design that we can compare it against the original estimates, and we are constantly comparing it. As I said, most of the estimates are coming in reasonably accurate. Some require a little bit more underground in certain cases and others are less. On average, when we come to poles, we are looking at fewer new poles than we initially envisaged.

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