Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 January 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland
Mr. T.J. Malone:
The Deputy is quite correct as Mr. Hendrick has also touched upon this earlier on. In the first year of any of these major projects, one comes across different issues where things have to be bedded in. CIÉ was obviously an issue with us in getting crossings of railway lines, whether that was underground or overhead. I am glad to say that this has been put to bed. We have a commercial agreement and contract in place with CIÉ. We have somewhere around 667 crossings to do in the life of this project. We have agreement and engineering solutions with CIÉ and we are working-----