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:

The commercial entity will say it cannot connect the house because it has done a survey showing it has to dig up the road and put in some poles, making the cost of connecting too expensive. The entity may not actually give you a price. It may simply say it cannot connect you. For that very reason, we are not removing the premises from the intervention area or seeking an encroachment subsidy.