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:
First, we did the detailed analysis. Second, if one goes to a retender and does not emerge with a successful solution, the only option is to return to the existing incumbent who will have one over a barrel because he will know the tender process has failed. Therefore, the prospect of being able to negotiate what had been negotiated originally, which was a €21 million extra return to the Exchequer, would be absolutely and utterly off the table.
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