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. Peter Hendrick:
In our update in March, we shared that we had reached a pre-qualification stage with five bidders. That subsequently went down to three, and we could see the rationale for the three in terms of urban infill. In areas such as Dublin we have a number of amber areas in a predominantly blue area. We have adjacent infill where the threshold between blue and amber is at a particular level. The rural extension is very remote and will be dealt with in 2025 and 2026. We now only have two bidders. They are predominantly dealing with urban infill and the rural extension. We do not have an infrastructure partner today for the blue and amber transition.
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