Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 April 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project

10:00 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

Yes. Western Connect, a firm of technical and financial consultants, was involved, as was DETI. The Chairman will see from the payment claims processed that the first two - one of which included the Nortel racks - were approved by Western Connect, as the managing agent, and countersigned by DETI. All the documentation, certification and authorisation was conducted by those two parties in the North and all the documentation was held there. In respect of the next two payment claims-----