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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: 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?

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Does it not come out of that €500 million?

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: That is what I would have thought. It would be remiss of me not to ask a question about the roll-out of the NBP in the greatest and smallest county in Ireland.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: At the end of 2024, 66% will be built, so 34% will fall into the back end.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I get that. Unfortunately, these are the people who ring and have a conversation about how they saw the van but it is just up the road. If we could get that self-installed product in place, we could bring those numbers forward.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The witnesses have kind of answered it but there were a number of issues relating to the planning process and looking for that level of capacity. Do the witnesses not think that will be major odds into the future? Are they happy enough they are where they are? Is there nothing we need to fix or tweak?

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes, and even beyond. We get the point about Eir. That is the shooting match. Is there anything else that can be fixed, even if it has less of a benefit?

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: We would need that.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: When will National Broadband Ireland be firming up on the 180,000 figure and beyond?

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: How quickly is it possible for it to come into play? This court case is going to be dealt with in a couple of weeks. I imagine negotiations with Eir do not happen over a fortnight.

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: How long would that take? In a perfect world, it would be the end of the year. How long would it then take for-----

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

Ruairí Ó Murchú: In a perfect world, then, it would be halfway through next year. Mr. Malone would probably not put money on that outcome.