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:

I will take that one again. We said earlier that we will not fully know until we go out and complete all the surveys and designs. It is only when we have the low-level designs completed for the entire amount that we will know. With the high level we are seeing at the moment we would envisage somewhere between 90,000 km and 98,000 km in the construction of the network itself. When the additional fibre that will be required to do the connections over the next 25 years is added in, we would say there will be somewhere around 140,000 km to 145,000 km. It will only be over the next year to year and a half-----

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