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:
As I understand it, the remaining bidder has been in extensive negotiations with Eir since February of this year on what is known as a make-ready programme. There is a lot of work to be done in terms of the condition of the Eir pole network, given we will be re-using about 1.2 million of them, and the Eir duct network in order that, when the contract is signed, the company can mobilise-----