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
Mr. Ciar?n ? h?b?in:
Commercial operators are free to build where they build. I would make two quick points. First, NBI is not proposing to reduce the scale of its intervention on the basis of any encroachment that is seen but that is looked at on an deployment-area-by-deployment-area basis when one gets to the low-level design. Second, NBI has confirmed that where such encroachment has occurred, it does not intend to seek access to the €100 million pot that is there as part of the €2.7 billion. We are confidence that that €2.7 billion is effectively €2.6 billion because that €100 million will never be sought.
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