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
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I will. Given that it is the same entity, and the only remaining entity, involved in the current national broadband plan, the information from that report is incredibly important because this is a very expensive project. We do not know exactly how much it is going to cost, but amounts between €500 million and €3 billion have been mentioned. We know it is going to be tremendously expensive. At the very least, we should have information on the affordability, the take-up, the risks etc. Looking back at the forerunner of this project is probably the best thing to do to make sure this can be a successful project.