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:
Like everything we have been behind in the surveys and designs and we have caught them up. During this period of time, have we had delays in getting them to contractors? Absolutely, because we would have expected to have had the surveys and designs done earlier in the project than we initially got them done. In the earlier stage there were delays in getting stuff to Eir because we had not had the designs ready to give to it. There was then a knock-on effect with the contractors. In the earlier stages we were behind in the surveys and the designs.