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:

I do not have a number, but it is part of the process we have undertaken right now. As Mr. Malone described, the 154,000 premises we have under construction today are largely coming out from some of those central points. On the number we will assess, our team is currently doing that through a process, with a number of operators, where we are sharing them, in other words, these are the premises, what technology the operators can serve and whether they can meet the future demands of high-speed broadband over the next 25 years-----