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 are not behind on the revised targets, no, but if one looks at where we had intended to be at the outset of this programme, with a fair wind, pre-Covid we would have expected that by the end of contract year three we would have 204,000 premises passed. We will have 102,000 premises passed so we are roughly a year behind. We have allowed eight and a half months of that to NBI as part of the review process and there are three and half months that will be part of a sanction process. I will ask Mr. Mulligan to set out the work that has been done on that and how that adjudication was arrived at in terms of what is leviable and the level of due diligence that goes in between the NBP senior manager's team and NBI in settling on an appropriate figure.