Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland
Mr. T.J. Malone:
I thank Deputy Crowe. With Covid we are in a different place from where we were this time last year or even earlier this year. When Covid originally came it impacted massively on surveying in the early stages, the design and, consequently, the build. As the Deputy can imagine we were a new company that was establishing itself. It pretty much affected every part of our business and everybody in the business. We now have the systems and processes in place. The computer and IT systems have all been built and they are in place. We are ahead on the surveys and the designs. The impact of Covid now is not as big as it was. The only place it hits us now is on the road and in the build itself. Previously it had hit the entire company and every part of the business.
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