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. T.J. Malone:

Our plan is that within the next year and a half, we will have all of the low-level designs completed at that particular point in time. Once we have all of the low-level designs completed, it will be accurate. We are constantly looking at it - every three or six months. When a new batch of low-level designs are done, we compare it against what we had averaged. It will take about a year and a half to get an absolute, accurate figure.