Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 December 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund

9:00 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

On the decision maker, a very detailed evaluation was undertaken internally in the Department at division level, informed on foot of that by a further detailed evaluation that was carried out by Norcontel. We also got some support from NewERA which is the shareholder executive for the State. A recommendation came up through the system regarding the benefits of one approach versus another, that is, extend versus re-tender. All the analysis showed that the extend option was the preferred one in financial terms, market terms and so forth. It would have come-----