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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: It accounts for 60% of the work being undertaken and, therefore, that figure concerns an Irish company.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: Did KN Networks continue to do 60% of the work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: What percentage of the roll-out work was Kelly Communications contracted to do?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: I am trying to get to the reason that explains NBI having achieved less than half of its target for this roll-out. The target set for the end of this year was 115,000 premises. Mr. Hendrick is confirming that 60,000 premises will be completed, which is roughly half of the initial target.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: I am trying to find out why that happened. We know that Covid-19 had an impact, and we are also reading various reports about this situation. When was Kelly Communications supposed to start its work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: Did they all start at the end of 2020?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: Which contractors were they?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: Where is Secto Services based?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: The contractors included Secto Services and Kelly Communications. Secto Services accounted for 30% of the work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: Originally, then, Secto Services, Kelly Communications and KN Networks were each to get a third of the work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: The only contractor based in the UK was Kelly Communications.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: Kelly Communications ran into trouble with the impact of Covid-19. When did that company become constrained by the effect of the virus?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: That is fine. Kelly Communications was supposed to start its work as a contractor for NBI in 2020. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: When did KN Networks take up that 60% of the work?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: If KN Networks took up that additional work, it was then getting 60% of the work and Secto Services was getting 40%. If those two contractors were in place and both were starting on time, why is the work that it was envisaged would be completed by now down by 50%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: What I read in the media is not what I am hearing from Mr. Hendrick. The media reports stated that a UK contractor accounted for 60% of the work and that it was extremely constrained by the impact of Covid-19. What I am hearing today is that the work of the contractor from the UK, Kelly Communications, was taken up by KN Networks. NBI then had two contractors in place, with KN Networks...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Hendrick, what did you agree with the Department as the new target for the end of 2021? It was 115,000. What is the new target?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: Is that with no fines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: When do you believe you will get back to meeting the targets set down under the original contract? Will it be the end of 2022, or the middle of 2022?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021) Kieran O'Donnell: What I might do is go to my colleagues and they can pick it up because I am conscious of time. I thank Mr. Hendrick but he will appreciate there is extreme disappointment amongst the general public that we are only half way to where we expected to be. Whereas it was 115,000, it now it is 60,000. That is a disappointment. We want to see how we can assist so that is brought back on course....