Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 November 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes
9:30 am
Mr. Fergal Mulligan:
That happened in 2017. We went through a lot of committee meetings here discussing that. As the Cathaoirleach will know, the European Commission said there was nothing we could do about that. Eir is a commercial company and is free to invest. It did create problems for the procurement process, as the Cathaoirleach will know. At the end of the day the positive news from that was that, with the advent of Covid, there were 340,000 premises with full fibre broadband from Eir well in advance of the NBP being rolled out. It did bring a very positive news story.
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