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:
There are a couple of assumptions related to pricing. However, what we are seeing at the moment, through what Mr. Hendrick mentioned previously, is that because we have forward-contracted some of our materials, we are actually coming in below the assumed costs for the prices of cable or poles, for example, than we assumed in the initial bid. Those are some of the areas where we have given money back to the State.