National Broadband Plan: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2022-01-27
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Ossian Smyth (GP), Dún Laoghaire

The answer is "No". The intervention area is defined. If a commercial provider provides a service in there, NBI can say it does not want to provide a service in there anymore, that it is not commercially viable, that it is costing the company money as a result and it can apply for a compensation payment. If it is interrupting NBI's plan, such as if that area was in between two areas it was trying to connect, then it could apply for a compensation payment. However, it can also opt to connect the customer itself and give him or her a second connection. NBI has indicated to me it will not opt for compensation payments in any case and so far it has just installed a second connection for anybody in the encroachment area.

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Sitting date: 2022-01-27