Results 5,041-5,060 of 26,185 for speaker:Kieran O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The figure was 63,652 as of the date of the submission, and might be slightly higher today. NBI has to reach about 38,000 in order to reach 102,000. With a quick calculation, I estimate the time involved to be about five months. Is NBI confident at this stage that it will reach the figure of 102,000 by the end of the year? That would be significant, rather than doing so by the end of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: We will talk positively. It would be a milestone if NBI could be ahead of a target agreed with the Department at the end of 2022.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: NBI will be targeting December.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Then it will be December of this year, and that is to be welcomed. I had a quick look at the statistics NBI provided to the committee when it came before us on a previous occasion, to which Mr. Hendrick made reference. The number of premises surveyed on that date was 308,000 and the figure is 330,000 today, an increase of roughly 7%. About 15,500 per month have been dealt with. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is the number of premises with the build under way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is 212,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: This is the first time the NBI has been before us where, with any luck, it is now getting ahead of the agreed targets. That is something towards which we are very positively disposed. I will turn to some issues. The gap intervention area refers to 500,000 or more premises. Those areas beside blue areas have existing fibre broadband networks like Eir. Under the roll-out programme, a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The two bidders will deal with what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does NBI see any possibility of bringing fibre to the home for those rural houses? When Mr. Hendrick speaks about urban areas, does that mean the outskirts of a city or town?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Not rural villages.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Will there be the option of fibre to homes in rural villages?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: There is no way that NBI could link into the likes of the Eir network.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The benefit of that is that it would expedite the roll-out of fibre broadband to rural houses in village settings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Where is that? That is a conduit to getting the roll-out of fibre broadband to those gap intervention areas which I would describe as amber areas alongside the existing fibre networks in rural areas. Where is NBI at in terms of agreeing that backhaul piece with the likes of Eir? In effect, Eir is the company which already has a fibre network rolled out in rural areas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When NBI speaks about capacity, in layman's terms what does that mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is in terms of the overall contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Where is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is Eir doing that submission to the regulator in partnership with NBI?