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. In our view, the state aid rules were very clear, as Mr. O'Dwyer mentioned. Over the years, our view is that the managed services entity has been allowed to diverge from those rules that were set back in 2006. Yesterday's report was the first attempt to bring it back in line with those rules. We welcome the fact that the new Minister, Deputy Bruton, has published that report, brought ComReg in and involved it in this process in an attempt to make sure the governance is right around that contract. That is to the benefit of competition, as I said. Bringing in more operators means better prices for consumers and more broadband.

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