Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 December 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund

9:00 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

We engaged in stakeholder consultation and are appearing before the committee. We interviewed 15 people whom we described at the time as "tier 1 users", that is, high users of the system who were well known within the telecoms industry. The vast majority expressed satisfaction with the performance of the MSE in running both MANs. We committed to undertaking an analysis of the pricing of the MANs products and that review has just been completed. We are engaging with the MSE and, having spoken to colleagues, I expect us to be in a position to publish the review before Christmas. I expect it to be published virtually in full, although there may be one or two matters we may have to redact. It will not, however, affect the overall findings and conclusions or the thrust of the report. As part of the development of the review, all of the issues with cost raised by a number of parties were fed into the process.

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