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:
To date, there are premises where we have gone back to the Department and said there is existing infrastructure, and those homeowners or apartment owners are being served with broadband. Therefore, we want to remove them from the map. We have removed premises from the map, but we go through a process of analysing, first, if they are guaranteed to get a service and if it is going to be a cost saving on the project by not building. There are premises that we have removed from the map, but it is a small number. We are not seeking encroachment compensation for those premises.