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. T.J. Malone:

From a construction point of view, we have started construction in about 25 of those deployment areas and 40 of them are contracted with contractors. There is a great degree more and we are surveying at the moment or have completed surveys in approximately 90 of the deployment areas. For the actual construction part, we have done or started on 25 and we have 40 contracted at the moment, which brings us to 145,000 premises. We have run the tenders for the next 50,000 premises, which brings us up to 62 deployment areas. Those tenders have been run, they have come back in, the evaluation process has been conducted and we are now ready to sign contracts in the next two to three weeks with those contractors for the next 50,000 premises.