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:

Again, the contract was written whereby we will have monthly or quarterly annual accounts on everything that has been spent and all moneys coming in. The expectation is that we will have a substantial team in the Department from day one that will oversee everything that the bidders are doing in terms of what they are spending because they have to prove what they need before they get it and the contract cheques will be signed off in the Department on the basis of money spent. So we will have full visibility of what they are spending versus what they budgeted to spend. At the end of each year we will then know how much money they either have spent or did not spend and then they do not need it. Again, we will not have given them the money in the first place.

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