Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport

National Broadband Plan and Network Resilience: National Broadband Ireland

2:00 am

Mr. T.J. Malone:

First, the difference between last year and this year is we have invested massively into software. We have worked on the battery back-up within all our different locations and we have analysed the critical sites we think are out there. We have changed the battery sizing depending on that, so where we have a critical site, we could have up to 20 hours of battery back-up in it which gives us plenty of time to get generators to site. We have also increased the number of generators we have out in the field. We have had conversations with ESB and we are now critical on its list, which is a very important step for us.

In general, we have put additional people into the back office and into the field. We know we are in a much better position.

To answer the second part of the question, we have built our organisation around that evolution. We call it "Project Evolve" internally. That is evolving from what was originally the build into a transitional-----

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