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Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: That is a substantial acceleration considering NBI has moved from 34,000 at the end of December to 38,500 now if that will double within the next month or so.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Of those 60,000, does NBI have an estimate for who it expects to be connected? How many people or dwellings among those 60,000 will contract up to be part of it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: What proportion of those that are passed lead to connections? That is what I am trying to get to.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Is there a turning point where NBI becomes profitable or unprofitable in terms of the number of connections?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: What is that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Can Mr. Hendrick even give me some ballpark figures on how many passes and connections NBI needs?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Five years from passing?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I want to talk about some of the technical issues with the NBI network. Do the witnesses have an up-to-date estimated total length of fibre cable that will be in the NBI network on completion?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: It will be 140,000 km all-in?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I am only looking for up-to-date estimates. What about the number of poles?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: What will be the final length of the underground duct networks for fibre cable?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: Is the target still to have 130,000 homes passed by the end of the year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: There is a big difference between those two numbers.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: What is Mr. Malone contemplating the milestone for the end of the year to be?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: What will be passed by the end of the year? I presume a milestone is set out in the wider contract.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: How will those negotiations with the Department work? I presume NBI will bring to the Department its forecast for what it has the capacity to deliver. What would happen if the Department was to say it expected NBI to achieve a greater number?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: On the recalibration of the milestones, are our guests satisfied that despite whatever delays NBI has encountered or might encounter in the future, it has sufficient evidence that it will be in a position to satisfy the Department-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: We are dealing with a situation whereby we have a possible target that differs by almost 30% at its lowest and highest points. It is a broad target. If delivery is on the lower end of that scale or if other targets need to be amended, are our guests satisfied that, whatever the circumstances, they will be in a position to convince the Department to recalibrate the milestones?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: I wish to follow on from the end of my conversation with NBI earlier and get some clarification. On what basis will penalties be applied to NBI?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters (10 Feb 2022)

Matt Carthy: What is the milestone for 31 December 2022?