Broadband Plan
3 days agoBroadband investigation will also look at how best to roll out rural network
A cross-party investigation into the €5bn national broadband plan will also look at the best way to roll out a high-speed network to rural Ireland.
3 days agoTaoiseach challenged on broadband plan by 12-year-old coding enthusiast
Aoibheann Mangan approached Leo Varadkar at Inspire Fest, a two-day science, technology and creativity event in Dublin.
4 days agoSimon Coveney: Government has nothing to hide in relation to broadband plan costs
The government has nothing to hide in relation to the €3bn National Broadband Plan and will explain its decision and the project costs in due course, the Tánaiste says.
4 days agoTaoiseach backs Oireachtas hearing into National Broadband Plan
Fianna Fail has demanded that a committee should investigate the matter.
4 days agoGovernment spends more than €14m on consultancy fees for Broadband Plan
Major consultancy firms PwC and KPMG have been paid €2.41m and €11.6m respectively.
5 days agoTaoiseach: Renationalising Eir to run National Broadband Plan would be double cost of proposed plan
Opposition calls to renationalise the former state telephone company, Eir, and have it run the National Broadband Plan would cost up to €9 billion, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.
5 days agoFianna Fáil claims Govt could introduce new charges to fund broadband project
Fianna Fáil has claimed the consortium behind the Government's broadband project may be planning to hit households with new charges to fill its own funding gap, before selling the contract onto another firm who will hike prices even further.
5 days agoBroadband plan cheapest and most effective, Bruton insists
Minister for Communications Richard Bruton has said that the National Broadband Plan is the cheapest and most effective option for the provision of broadband.
5 days agoLabour seeks clarity over Granahan-McCourt investment in broadband plan
Labour is demanding to know what the consortium leading the €5bn broadband project will put up front as the party warned that a tribunal may rake over the costs and deal for the project in a decade.
6 days ago'Joined-up thinking' required for services like broadband plan, says former Housing Agency chief
He said that the National Development Plan and the National Broadband Plan contradicted each other with one encouraging more focus on villages and towns with the other offering “one for everyone in the audience.”
6 days agoBroadband group ‘on hook’ for cost overruns
The consortium behind the Government’s multi-billion euro national broadband plan will be “entirely on the hook” to pay any extra costs if the project continues to surge over-budget.
6 days agoMcDonald challenges Martin to ‘put up or shut up’ over broadband
The Sinn Féin leader is calling on Micheal Martin to back her party’s motion opposing the Government’s National Broadband Plan.
6 days agoBruton: Broadband bidder will have to invest €2.4bn in the project
Richard Bruton claims that will be the cost to Granahan McCourt over the lifetime of the 25-year contract.
7 days agoNational Broadband Plan labelled 'the worst deal ever seen'
The €3bn State investment in the controversial National Broadband Plan has been labelled “the worst deal ever seen” after it emerged that the private operator chosen to deliver it will only invest €200m equity in it.
8 days agoBroadband: People living in rural Ireland ''sick and tired of broken promises'
Sinn Féin Leader Mary Lou McDonald has said people living in rural Ireland are fed up with promises being broken when it comes to broadband.
9 days agoVaradkar slams Sinn Féin idea to use ESB for broadband plan as 'political stunt'
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has slapped down calls by Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin to use the ESB to roll out high-speed broadband, saying this could be “illegal” and would cause delays for rural Ireland.
9 days agoSinn Féin calls for ESB to deliver broadband plan
Sinn Féin will move a Dáil motion calling on the ESB to be appointed to deliver the National Broadband Plan.
10 days agoMicheál Martin says National Development Plan is 'in shreds'
Fianna Fáil has hit out at the Government for now spending almost €10bn on three projects that are all billions over budget.
10 days ago'This is not about Netflix': Rural broadband would transform health services, says Denis Naughten
Former Minister for Communications Denis Naughten has warned that if the proposed National Broadband Plan falters between now and the signing of the contract he does not believe that there will ever be high-speed broadband in rural Ireland.
10 days agoFine Gael MEP event dominated by broadband controversy
The Government has defended its decision to give the go-ahead to the plan, which is now billed to cost up to €5bn.
