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
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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Mr. Hendrick mentioned a cost of in the region of €2,000 per connection. I refer to the cost of providing the scheme. Adding together the State subsidy and the private finance and dividing that by 540,000 or 550,000 gives a figure of approximately €12,000. Is that correct? I am talking about the actual cost of the scheme. In other words, the average cost for a premise in the orange intervention area to be connected, in the context of the overall scheme, is in the region of €12,000 per premises.