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. Mark Griffin:

We will come back with that information. Relative to the picture when we were here last, however, the present situation is that 85,400 premises have been passed and 20,500 have been connected. We also have a target for the end of the year of 102,000, which will be the increase from the current 85,500. We also have a target for the end of 2023, which will be a cumulative 185,000 premises passed. As I said, the figure for premises connected is 20,500, and we are seeing connections now happening at 2,000 per month. Therefore, we can give the Deputy that information and we will aim to get to the statistics for the farm and non-farm businesses, etc.