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

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Moving on to the issue of hubs, it was admitted earlier that there is a delay in the roll-out in quite a number of areas. We have connected 200 schools. Because of Covid, many people now work from home. In my constituency, areas that are less than 5 miles from Cork city cannot get broadband, yet there are community facilities that, if a central hub was provided, would be of benefit to a huge number of people. Are there any plans to put additional hubs in place?