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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The Department had said that the time was coming to an end. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: To move those areas would be seen as having a detrimental impact on their business.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I hope the Department would maintain communication with them to ensure the commitment is maintained so people do not get left out. We had previously spoken about these areas and it was specific to Eir. I am aware the NBI disputed the figure of 40,000 premises where there was crossover of Eir and the NBI doing the same piece of work. We spoke earlier about this and the NBI mentioned we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I get it. Even if NBI believes that if someone else is catering for an area, it still has to build or do something else. I think the media was coming at it from the perspective that NBI could have ended up getting payment for places that it was not going to build but that will not be the case, will it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There was considerable comment on the financial breakdown of NBI and the money behind it. Mr. Hendrick was here before and told us it was looking for new investors. What stage has that reached? Not that many of us have looked at many companies and their investors but it did strike me that they did not appear to be the kinds of companies that were in for the long haul or, in the case of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: So NBI is in conversations or negotiations at this time. Maybe Mr. Hendrick cannot go into too much detail.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I imagine the reason for the court case is that Eir does not really want to deliver this to the NBI.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: How would that impact on the taxpayer? Is there a pay-off? Does it cost more? How would it outwork itself? Is it too early to tell?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: How does that work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That would be preferable from the Minister and everyone else's perspective. When we discussed this previously Mr. Hendrick spoke about how, as some of the work such as design was finished, that some of those staff would become available. I will paraphrase Mr. Hendrick so I hope he forgives me if I go beyond what he said. He spoke of becoming almost a European super-company in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is post-NBP. There has not been change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Previously, Mr. Hendrick said that if there was to be acceleration, that capacity would be needed at local authority level particularly around road engineering and planning. Have all the difficulties regarding planning been dealt with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am surprised. I was going to remind you, Chairman, anyway, that it was rather remiss of you to forget about your constituents.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In relation to the PCPs, which probably does not completely fall in to NBI's bailiwick, I am imagine that some of them are for proper remote working hubs, etc., and others are where somebody had an idea to put it in a GAA hall. Even when the NBI was on RTÉ Radio 1, there was an interview with a guy about a local GAA hall somewhere in Roscommon. Nobody had been showing up to it. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: There is no point in going back over it. The fact is that the only game in town is the self-installed product. The quicker that can happen the better. The quicker it happens, the more chance we have of pulling seven years back into six years. On the issue of penalties, is it a matter of paperwork? Initially it sounded like the NBI was being kept to what had been the previous deadlines...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The penalties are on the new dates that have been agreed on, combined with the follow up information, on which there are difficulties putting together. However, the NBI is trying to mitigate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The other point that is that the faster this happens the better. In some places people have been facilitated in the sense that alternatives have become available. Has the NBI done any engagement with the mobile phone and broadband task force? My understanding is that it has tasked ComReg with putting together a list of alternatives, particularly for those people who will be waiting at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We have all heard the figures in relation to what the Government is paying for this in its entirety. Yet, every now and again somebody throws out that it is €2.7 billion, €2.8 billion or €2.9 billion. Some people come out with a figure of €5 billion, etc. Can Mr. Hendrick put it on the record how much exactly it is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: If the NBI was putting in for the encroachment, will that come out of that figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Does it come out of the €2.6 billion?