Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
Roll-out and Delivery of Broadband in Rural Areas: Discussion
Mr. Fergal Mulligan:
Exactly. To be fair, I have been at a lot of these meetings, and the local authorities are knocking it out of the park on the licensing compared with where they were. I think NBI has acknowledged that that is happening. Licences which were taking three to four months to do are now being done in days. To be fair to broadband officers, the planning departments and the road opening licence departments and engineers, there is a collective group in every local authority and they are working extremely hard. As I said, I think the evidence we have in all the tables I am seeing is that it is going extremely well. That needs to be acknowledged as well.
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