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:

We need things to be brought to our attention so that we know that there is a problem. The report is written in a very balanced way. It does not say that prices at reduced or reasonable levels were not available to service operators. The criticism is primarily, as I read it, that it needs to be better documented. It appears that perhaps there is an issue about the transfer pricing arrangements between Enet and ETNL. We need to bottom out on that. We will look at that but ComReg has been commissioned to undertake that work by the Minister and will produce a report. As I said, the Deputy should not take the set of recommendations that issued on foot of the report as the last word. We will constantly evaluate whether the recommendations are being implemented. We will take further feedback from BT, which is a customer and a competitor of Enet, and from other entities. We will review this on an ongoing basis. The Analysys Mason report refers to the need for a further review within a two-year period.

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