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. Mark Griffin:

Considering where we expected the build to be in absolute terms, with regard to the contract and the interim remedial plan, the answer is "No". We had expected that by the end of contract year two, by 1 February, that 60,000 premises would be passed under the interim remedial plan, as the Deputy will have seen in the documentation submitted. Approximately 34,500 premises have been passed. Pre-orders can be made at more than 50,000 premises. When one looks at it in stark terms, there is a problem and we have not reached where we need to be. There are reasons for that.

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