Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My understanding from the other meetings is that the reason for the difference had to do with the fact that, while the roll-out to 300,000 premises was based on the 32-page document, the €3 billion to be spent on rolling broadband out to the remainder needed oversight and governance, as it was a large amount of taxpayers' money and a large company providing wholesale telecommunications could have another arm investing in something other than communications. Theoretically and logically, the State money could be siphoned from one arm of the company to another. Eir is a private company, but Ms Lennon is also a citizen of Ireland. Would she not view it as a serious issue if any amount of taxpayers' money given to a large company over a long period went into other parts of the company where we did not have oversight of it?