Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Matt Yardley:

On the Deputy's question on timing, the €800 million was based on a model whereby we were renting a service to the 300,000 area where Eir was rolling out.

We were building thereafter. For the reasons I have given, that was felt later on not to be suitable. The cost went up because we were then building-----