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:

That is why we can start to allow homes to pre-order. We can do so because we get certainty at least 12 weeks in advance of when the construction will finish. When Mr. Malone’s team finishes on site and the 60,000 premises are constructed, we then have to inform industry, which is the retail operators and we give them a notification period where they can go and sell to consumers. At that point they can give consumers exact dates on when we will install but the installations do not happen for anything between two and four weeks after that. The definition under the contract is that is when they are contractually passed, even though the construction and all the work will have been done by the end of March.

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