Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 March 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 (Resumed)

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to put some questions, having listened to the proceedings. What is the nature of the contract? I do not want to conflate the two but when we discussed the national children's hospital, we were told it was a one-off specific issue and not like building a motorway. The witnesses today are saying the exact same - that it is a one-off and there is nothing else like it. They are not in the same space but they could be. The children's hospital had a two-phase contract. What is the nature or type of the broadband contract? I am not looking for commercial details. Is it design, build, operate and finance? Does it have one stage or two stages? What are the review processes? What is the nature of the contract being worked on?

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