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
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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I know that from the briefing note provided by the Department. I can see where that is in relation to excess profit, the sale of NBI, network deployment, etc. There is an ask for some of the fund at the moment and there is a potential draw on it.
On the encroachment fund, there is €130 million in that fund. My understanding of the fund is that there is the intervention area but if Eir encroaches on that, National Broadband Ireland, NBI, can then claim some of the encroachment fund from the Department and the Government. Does the Department expect the fund to be used in 2022 or 2023?