Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport
National Broadband Plan and Network Resilience: National Broadband Ireland
2:00 am
Malcolm Noonan (Green Party)
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That is excellent. I understand Kilkenny was one of the first counties to go live, thanks to a local authority that was very forward-thinking and progressive in its support.
This committee quite rightly spends a lot of time delving into the operations of other organisations, including in terms of underperformance and over-expenditure on projects. Are there lessons to be learned from the broadband roll-out that could be applied to other projects or to meeting other major infrastructural challenges? Rolling out broadband was a huge infrastructural challenge, given our dispersed rural population. Are there lessons from the national broadband roll-out that could be transferred to project delivery elsewhere?