Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 February 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland

9:00 am

Mr. Peter Evans:

Yes. Going back to the early stages in 2004, we expressed an interest at that stage in becoming the managed services entity. However, the EU state aid approval stipulated that an operator could not run the MANs. They wanted that separation so we could not bid for it at that stage.

When it became clear, over the following years, that an operator actually was running the managed services entity, in 2017 we expressed an interest in participating in an upcoming tender for the management of the MANs. We were told the decision had been made by the Minister to extend the contract for another ten years.

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