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. Mark Griffin:

KPMG looked at what other things could be layered on top of that to provide greater assurance as to whether what was being proposed represented value for money in a single bidder scenario. We looked, as did KPMG and our technical people, at international models around things like connection costs. They looked at the average connection cost in rural deployments in Spain and other member states. We have that benchmark to allow us to make that sort of assessment. We are still going through some of that work and we are quite comfortable with what KPMG put forth as a single bidder solution assessment methodology. The cost-benefit analysis is still positive, notwithstanding the changes to the map that have occurred over the past couple of years. We will be going to Government in the next number of weeks and we will be required to give those assurances about value for money in a single bidder situation.

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