Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

In 2017, the MANs contract was rolled over to 2030. Essentially, there was provision within the contract to do that. The information was in one of the Sunday newspapers. Another entity that was interested in tendering for that contract was BT Ireland. The contract was rolled over and, eventually, it was purchased by the State under the infrastructure fund. It would have been more valuable by virtue of the fact that it was rolled over so we probably paid substantially more. We are likely to have paid substantially more relatively recently and we need to understand why the contract was rolled over.