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

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is the take-up now. Therefore, on the never-never, it is going to be 90% and Eir will be printing money. That is its business. That is commercial. I am only interested in the public's money. We do not have a cost-benefit analysis on 5G, as we have established. The second thing is that, thus far, two years into it, there is only a percentage of take-up. I am just taking a wild guess that a lot of home users are not NASA engineers designing the space shuttle and might be happy to access Netflix and use a little bit of Google. I am wondering, before we dish out somewhere between €1.5 billion and €3 billion, whether we should look at this. I am not an expert. I am just a simple taxpayer in here to ask questions on behalf of other taxpayers. Let us do a cost-benefit analysis on 5G, which, by Mr. Griffin's own admission, we have not done because the figures are newly available.

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