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

Ms Fionola Rossi:

They are recoverable. It is the State that owns the asset, so that is one means by which we ensure the asset is maintained in good condition. The payments would not be of high order. There would be, I think, about €10 million on the MANs. There are on phase 2 again, in recognition of the difficult circumstances surrounding those 66 smaller towns covered in the MANs, whereas phase 1 had-----