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:
Certainly, we know the houses in rural areas which are provided with services by commercial operators. The primary purpose of the MANs was to generate competition around business access and to go into areas where there was a major market failure at the time to provide high-speed fibre services to business.