Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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212. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the impact of the omicron variant of Covid-19 in relation to the delivery of the National Broadband Plan, specifically, the impact in quarter 1 of 2022 outturns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16163/22]

Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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My Department is currently working with NBI to agree an Updated Interim Remedial Plan (UIRP) which will recalibrate the targets for 2022 to take account of the knock on effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, including the latest wave of the omicron variant, which spreads more easily than previous variants, and which I am informed has had a relatively significant impact on the NBI workforce in Q1 2022.This work is expected to be concluded shortly.