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:

There is a difference between premises passed and premises built. Consider the 73,350 that are built at the moment. When I talk about built, I am referring to the period when the contractors who are building a network walk off site, we have a fully functional live network that is ready to go from the NBI's perspective, and there is no more work that needs to be carried out on the ground. They come back within a week or two of that and give me a fully updated map telling me all that has been built. We are on top of that daily with them. They give us a fully functional map. When that comes in, we must then do some verification ourselves to make sure it corresponds with everything we have. We then need to load it onto our inventory management system. This is a fancy name for an IT system that interacts between all of the 56 different service providers which Mr. Hendrick spoke of earlier. We need to load the information into that so that each one of those 56 service providers has access at the same time and there is no discrimination. They will all have access to those. We then must give two weeks' notice to the industry.

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