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
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
We have the recommendations and the status of them from the Department, I believe, and then BT's view. It agrees with very few, where they have been implemented. I refer to a couple of examples. Number two was that Enet should update its assumptions used in preparing the desktop survey. It states that it has no visibility of this activity. Number four states that Enet and the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment should discuss price changes for dark fibre sub-duct and duct, which will ensure that wholesale customers will not find it more expensive. It states that it has no visibility on these discussions. It further states that Enet should make single strands of dark fibre available. It notes the introduction of this. Number six states that Enet should document all its discounting schemes to ensure that it offers the same type and level of discounts to all requesting customers. It states that it has no visibility of this documentation. Again, right down through all of these it states that there is no visibility of the evidence of this or of the activity. In a detailed reading of this, we can see that it does not accept that the implementations which it states have been made have actually been made. Can Mr. Griffin respond to these issues or has he given us a response?
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