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:

Our ambition is obviously to accelerate, which means we must catch up earlier. That is the work we have got going on at the moment. We contracted Eir to increase its output from the first of October and that is phased over 18 months. Eir is going to increase the number of poles and the number of ducts it is going to repair. Over the course of quarter 4 this year we are engaging with contractors around their ability to mobilise more resources to increase into 2023 to recover it. We will have a better sense over the next six to nine months of what that recovery and acceleration plan looks like.