Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 September 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland

Mr. Peter Hendrick:

That was a company called Kelly Communications, from the UK. It was due to commence activity in summer 2020. It was part of the framework agreement in the context of the building programme and also part of our connections programme. Unfortunately, that company could not bring resources into Ireland because of Covid-19. It is a separate contractor from the contractor that had 60% of the workload. The contractor in that case was KN Networks. They are two different contracts, but both had an impact in respect of the scale of our programme in 2020 and 2021.