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:

The target is to see if we can do it within five years. We are currently evaluating all of the different elements and components that feed into that. As the Chairman might appreciate, we are six months behind the original seven years at the moment. We are actively out there getting to see what is and is not feasible. We are confident we can deliver the seven-year plan and that we can deliver it in under seven years. At this point, however, we are not sure of the extent to which that will be the case. That will not be until we get all of the different criteria back and understand what that gives us. That is ongoing and active and we are working-----