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:
On whether it was closed down, all contractors were allowed to work through Covid. However, Covid did not respect that because people who were contractors in vans got Covid and people were close contacts of those who got Covid. That had an absolutely unbelievable effect on the value chain. These were not only NBI people but all the people working for Eir on the make-ready who were all similar contractors, like KN Circet, Actavo, Gaeltec, TLI Group and all the contractors throughout the country. There are about 1,500 men and women working on this across every county. No county was left outside the Covid box.