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

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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The area was mapped out and there was to be an encroachment subsidy if there was to be competition with a commercial entity. It has been reported that Eir has passed 45,000 homes within the intervention area and that is where the encroachment subsidy would arise. Has NBI engaged with the Department on an encroachment subsidy regarding those premises?