Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Dónal Palcic:

It will have made all its money back. From my reading of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform report, the operator will have made its money back in seven or eight years, such that everything made after that is additional to it. On the asset, one of the concerns highlighted in our briefing note is the reliance on Eir's infrastructure in the intervention area. Eir has a major infrastructure programme that it is going to have to implement-----