Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 February 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters

9:30 am

Mr. T.J. Malone:

Yes we have somewhere in the region of about 1,200 people. We directly employ about 300 people with NBI and there are direct contractors working on this, so it is roughly 1,200 at this stage and ramping up. We see that probably topping out at around 1,800 to 2,000 contractors at our peak.