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:
There are two sides to that. We are looking at the ability to buy or procure backhaul from third parties such as Eir. Part of the challenge in terms of the roll-out plan is that when we go from survey design to build, when we do the survey it means we are testing infrastructure. While we are 60% through on the survey, and will be pretty much 60% through on the design side soon enough, we then have to provide those designs to Eir to do make-ready. As a precursor, we look to see whether we can get backhaul in place. If we can, we then need to decide whether we can bring that deployment area in early, if we can. We then give that make-ready to Eir to repair or replace poles.
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