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
Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I welcome the witnesses. At the beginning of November The Irish Timesprinted figures that it obtained showing that 28,000 homes or as few as 14% of homes availed of Eir broadband out of a total of 200,000 homes. If the cost for the national broadband programme ranges between €1.5 billion and €3 billion then that suggests the cost of connecting each house would be at best €20,000 per house or, in a worst case scenario, €40,000 per home. Does Mr. Griffin believe, based on those figures, that the unit price per household represents good money for value for the taxpayer?
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