Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan

9:30 am

Photo of Paul McAuliffePaul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I was going to turn to that. Mr. Griffin is right that the national development plan provides the funding base. We now have established the clear pipeline of the demand. The delivery bit is the bit in the middle. I have two questions around that. Does Mr. Griffin believe the SEAI has the capacity to deliver that extra demand? What is the Department doing for Irish contractors, and by going outside of Ireland, to try to secure an additional supply of people who would be able to carry out the retrofitting? I have one last question that is unfair to ask, so I will let Mr. Griffin answer. I will come back in the second round and be unfair to him then.

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