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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is the number of premises with the build under way.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is 212,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: This is the first time the NBI has been before us where, with any luck, it is now getting ahead of the agreed targets. That is something towards which we are very positively disposed. I will turn to some issues. The gap intervention area refers to 500,000 or more premises. Those areas beside blue areas have existing fibre broadband networks like Eir. Under the roll-out programme, a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The two bidders will deal with what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does NBI see any possibility of bringing fibre to the home for those rural houses? When Mr. Hendrick speaks about urban areas, does that mean the outskirts of a city or town?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Not rural villages.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Will there be the option of fibre to homes in rural villages?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Why not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: There is no way that NBI could link into the likes of the Eir network.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The benefit of that is that it would expedite the roll-out of fibre broadband to rural houses in village settings.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Where is that? That is a conduit to getting the roll-out of fibre broadband to those gap intervention areas which I would describe as amber areas alongside the existing fibre networks in rural areas. Where is NBI at in terms of agreeing that backhaul piece with the likes of Eir? In effect, Eir is the company which already has a fibre network rolled out in rural areas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: When NBI speaks about capacity, in layman's terms what does that mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is in terms of the overall contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Where is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is Eir doing that submission to the regulator in partnership with NBI?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of NBI's discussions with Eir and the self-install, is NBI at a point where Eir is agreeable to allow NBI to do it subject to------
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is ComReg taking Eir to court on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The regulator is supportive of what NBI is proposing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland (29 Jun 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: If that came to pass, would it speed up the roll-out significantly?