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:

Today, our contractual obligation is to ensure that all homes in the intervention area get access to high-speed broadband. We have not looked to not build infrastructure or to seek compensation under the encroachment for not building infrastructure. We are building network to pass all 554,000 premises right now.