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:

In the beginning, for the first three deployment areas, we were going to start with three contractors. It was envisaged that Kelly Communications would have been allocated a third of that work. It did not come into the programme, however, and the second contractor, KN Networks, took 60% of the work that was going to be contracted to Kelly Communications. Ultimately, it was that company that was impacted between December and March regarding resource availability for 2021.