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:

It is understandable to see it that way but the vast majority of this work for the remaining 25,000 from December was completed so we would be at anything between 70% and 90%, or a little over it, of the work completed in those areas. It was just a matter of finalising and finishing the smaller pieces that were left to be done, albeit those small pieces stopped homes being categorised as being constructed or passed. The end of February and March will involve finishing out those bits and pieces. That is where a major jump will be seen, as is the case from the end of January to the end of February, which brought the target to 47,000.