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:
On construction activity across 26 counties, we actually have contractors either finished or gone or in the process of constructing in respect of the 154,000 premises. That is the total number of premises where we have built and are finished, whereby they are ready for service or where we are still involved in construction. What we are trying to convey is the forward momentum of the project and that, in the original plan, we were to be at 180,000, obviously with a larger number passed and ready for service. In total, the plan before Covid was to have 180,000 either constructed or under construction at this point.