Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 February 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters
9:30 am
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I understand that.
As regards the board of NBI, there are nine people on the board. Granahan McCourt nominates eight of those board members and the Minister, the State, the Department and the taxpayer have one board member. The Minister, the State and the taxpayer are putting up €2.6 billion, while Granahan McCourt is putting up just over €200 million. The highest figure of which I have heard in that regard is €270 million. For the first seven months, that is, up to July 2020, there was no representative on the board. Who is the representative of the taxpayer, the Department and the State on the board now? Has it been the same person the whole time?
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