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

Mr. Fergal Mulligan:

There is a provision in the contract. At year 25 - and it is in the contract as a commitment where the number of premises that are connected at the time - if the bidder is willing to continue to operate at its own cost all of those premises and not look for more subsidy or come back with the cap out because it is not commercial, there is an extra ten years. So, effectively, it is a 35-year contract. If in year 25 they are not willing to commit to that, well then at that point we reserve the right to take back the assets and the business.

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