Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan

9:30 am

Mr. Fergal Mulligan:

We are in year three of the build programme, and for the first two years no sanctions were applicable under the contract. We are in the early stages of applying sanctions. The Comptroller and Auditor General reported upward of €30,000 per build, with another €100,000 being notified to NBI, so that amounts to €230,000. This process of build sanctions will continue for the next five to six years as the build programme progresses. The other sanctions apply for 25 years. It is early days to be looking at it through the lens of how big or small a sanction is. The daily sanction is quite significant when-----