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. John O'Dwyer:

It is how the Deputy describes it. When the Deputy says "taken out", what happens is that one can only give state aid where the commercial sector has not invested. This is worth clarifying. What happened here was Eir went to the Department and said that it had decided to commercially invest in that 300,000. By saying it was going to do that - obviously it made a commitment because there was a commitment agreement given for that - it was saying to the State it was going to commercially do this and the State cannot provide state aid where it has commercially rolled out. In this situation, Eir made that decision to make that roll-out and to be honest, I do not think-----

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