Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 September 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed)

5:00 pm

Ms Carolan Lennon:

There was a specific question about Kildare. In terms of the 300,000 customers roll-out in Kildare, we have completed 93% and there is 7% remaining. We will have 330,000 houses and businesses will be done by June 2019, so we will sweep the rest of it up between now and then. What has happened in some places is that when we go out to build it, there is a reason we cannot build it, there is a wayleave or something else in the way. We do not stop, we just keep going and then we go back around and we pull all those back in at the end. We will be finished by June 2019 because our plan is to move the same machine that had originally done fibre to cabinet on to our fibre to the home urban roll-out.