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:

The urban-rural digital divide would be wider. To put this into context, the homes we are talking about today receive speeds of less than 30 Mbps. People in urban areas of the country benefit from a benchmark product with a speed of 500 Mbps. In 2016 or 2017, the gap was not significant. We were talking about tens of megabits per second. We are now talking about hundreds. The demand for those hundreds of megabits per second is only increasing. One of the benefits we have in our job is that we see the impact our work has on businesses, homes and schools every day. That is what drives us every day to get out there and build this network. We know this is more important now than it was two years ago.

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