Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 June 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
National Broadband Plan: Discussion
Ms Michele Connolly:
It would have been on foot of legal advice at the time regarding the restrictions within EU procurement regulations as to the extent of the change the could be made. The legal assessment at that point in time was that switching from something where the private sector owned the asset to a position where the public sector owned it would have required going back to the start of the procurement.
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