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:

We can come back with some details. What I would say is that the cost in the first number of deployment areas is in line with our budget expectations. As well as passing homes, we are also connecting homes. We are in a good place from the perspective of the cost of the project. On the Senator's point regarding the website and communications, it is important that we are saying today that we are very confident in the programme. Given what we have done to date in terms of the build programme, the connections programme and the take-up, we are very confident today in terms of the programme coming in on time and on budget. Our real focus now is on the recovery from 2023 onwards in terms of bringing that six-month delay back in, and also in terms of acceleration. In the meantime, we can come back with some numbers.