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. Peter Hendrick:
Referring to Mr. Malone's point, building this on a national basis really is about, as we add more and more resources and teams on the ground, using existing infrastructure. If you think about the existing infrastructure, there are 1.4 million poles. When we started the project we assumed there would be about 22,500 poles per annum that we would need to repair or replace.