Brian Stanley (Laois, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On the overall project, the National Development Finance Agency, NDFA, oversees projects costing more than €20 million. In this case, we are looking at a project costing between €2.75 billion and €3 billion. Why was the National Development Finance Agency not involved in overseeing this contract? Its representatives were asked to come before the committee. The NDFA did not appear but supplied a statement in which it stated it had a "very limited role" in the national broadband plan and that it "had no involvement of any description since 2018". What is the reason for that?