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:
We have gone back to Eir in order to secure additional capacity to do the make-ready work on the basis of being behind at present on some targets, and to try to get ahead of ourselves and anticipate, if there is an accelerated part on that. Eir is working through that itself. It replaced the poles on our behalf as part of the Eir make-ready work. The machinery for that is specialised and there are long delivery times for it. It is either brought it in from abroad, if it is already there, or it is manufactured.