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 started out with a very open procurement process. Three organisations were shortlisted. SIRO - the Vodafone-ESB consortium, Eir and the Granahan McCourt-led consortium. As the dialogue progressed, in September 2017, SIRO wrote to the Department formally and said that it found it difficult to develop a competitive business case.
Deputy Cullinane effectively queried if that was linked to the Eir 300,000 being taken off the map. It may well have been but I cannot say that with absolute certainty. Eir decided in January 2017 to withdraw from the process. It was in the process-----
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