Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 March 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed)

9:00 am

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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Basically, we had the contract in place and it provided for an extension for ten years in respect of both.

We considered it internally. We got a report from Norcontel that seemed to affirm the Department's assumption that the best thing to do was extend with the current provider, which could be done contractually.