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. Barry Kelly:

Ms Fisher might come in on this one. There is a concept under the contract where we have to understand the impact of that encroachment. We would have to say what the cost is to NBI, where we may have lost revenue or we may have to incur additional costs. When one thinks about how we will be covering more than 90% of the land mass of Ireland, if we will be passing those premises anyway to reach the ones very far down the road that the commercial operator might not want to get to, there will probably be very little cost difference to us. The incremental cost of passing that operator is very small.