Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 May 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service
10:00 am
Mr. Mark Griffin:
The construction expenditure on MANs was €176 million, with the last piece of construction done around 2009. We got substantial co-funding on that from the European Regional Development Fund. That was between 40% and 50% of the investment. The take-up on MANs was initially slow but over the past number of years we have seen a very substantial take-up. The estimate we have from the management service entity is that approximately 600,000 individuals and business users benefit from the MANs. That includes some very big users like Coca-Cola in Wexford, Abbott in Sligo, the University of Limerick, PayPal in Cork, Galway and Dundalk and EMC and Apple in Cork. There are some very big and very important users of MANs on-stream.
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