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:

From a survey point of view, and specifically to Mayo, we break this down by county and by year throughout every single county. We have a list of all the different deployment areas within that county, and the various stages from the survey to design to build commencement and build completion. In the case of Mayo, by the end of next year, we will have around 80% of the survey completed. We will be well on the way at that stage. By the end of 2023, we will have 34% of the builds, all the premises, commenced. By the end of 2024 we will have 52% commenced, and by the end of 2025 we will have about 77% of the builds commenced within the county. For builds completed, by the end of 2025 we will have between 49% and 50% of the entire county completed and about 73% completed by the end of 2026 and the remainder will be done in the balance of that timeframe.