Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Denis O'Leary:

It would depend on where that person was relative to the last person we had served in phase 1. If he or she is a next door neighbour of the last person we served in phase 1, it is highly probable that he or she is a SIRO customer. Unfortunately, if he or she is 3 km or 4 km away from the last customer we served in phase 1, he or she will not be the type of customer to whom SIRO will go. It will go to a customer who is more suitable to be included in one of the intervention areas under the national broadband plan. That was the purpose of the plan.