Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 May 2019

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I have a pretty clear idea of my responsibilities. While I have been answering the Deputy's questions, I have received some material on his question about fibre optic technologies and it backs up the point I made a moment ago. SIRO is a venture involving ESB and Vodafone and it uses fibre optic technology to expand and upgrade its existing rural network, which will reach 300,000 premises. Eir recently made the decision to upgrade its urban network, serving 1.4 million premises, using fibre optic technology as well.