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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: One hundred and fifteen thousand minus 38,000 is roughly-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: On the target, NBI is a good bit off. It is probably the bones of about 70,000 off target.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It is almost half off target. By the end of the year, NBI will be at 130,000, and the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The target was 205,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When we look at it, we see that for premises with builds under way and premises with fibre builds under way, there is a catching up. There is still a lag regarding the premises passed. How can that be pulled back?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why can it not be pulled back faster? If all the other areas are being pulled back, why is there such a significant lag concerning the premises passed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is work that NBI would carry out or contract out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is this Eir-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is it a case of Eir doing poles?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: It appears to me at this stage that the bulk of the work is done by Eir.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Are there issues with Eir that are slowing the process down? NBI has caught up in all the other areas. The bottleneck — premises passed — is obviously the final key element. What is the reason for it? It appears to be Eir. What can we do as a committee to assist in finding a mechanism to speed up the process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is where the heavy lifting is done.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Malone might come back to us on those items. We are here to help with the roll-out. The gap-intervention areas are important to all of us. We welcome the fact that NBI, at our request, sought to determine whether something could be done. In rural areas of Limerick, there are cases of individuals who do not have fibre broadband while their neighbours over the ditch do. We need to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Mr. Malone. I wish NBI well with the work. It will revolutionise rural Ireland. It looks like NBI has all the retailers on board, but it is a question of the last aspect, the premises. The delegates are the technical people but I am commenting on what the layman looking in really wants. The gap-intervention areas are key as well. We will continue to engage with NBI. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I cannot expect Mr. Hendrick to comment on the following matter with without careful thought. We want to deal with the broadband. Where does Mr. Hendrick believe the inaccuracies and misrepresentations were in the media? Does he want to comment on that? There is an opportunity to do so here, in a public forum.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: To get to the nub of it, is Mr. Hendrick, as the CEO of NBI, happy that NBI's financial structure and particularly its capital base and access to capital are secure enough to ensure there will be no hiccups in the roll-out of the national broadband plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Hendrick, with regard to this proposal to look for new investors, who will they be? Obviously, you will have to get approval from the Department for that. What is the profile of that type of investor and what will the funds be used for? Is it about the broadband roll-out here or what is the purpose of this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (27 Jan 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does that compromise it in any way? NBI was set up to roll out broadband in Ireland. If Mr. Hendrick is bringing in additional private investors to invest in NBI as a company or entity and NBI is now going to start doing the roll-out of broadband networks elsewhere in Europe-----