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. Fergal Mulligan:
The contract allows NBI to build or, alternatively, it can come into us and say it is not going to build there and those premises will be left out of the plan. A third option is that where NBI thinks there is going to be a net cost for business, it can seek encroachment. In the first instance, it can elect to go there. In the second instance, it can elect not to go there and nothing changes. In the third instance, if there is a net cost to its business, it can seek some of the encroachment, up to €100 million.
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