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
Mr. Mark Griffin:
I will hand over to Mr. Mulligan but I come back to a basic point first. Under EU state aid rules, one cannot simply assign a contract which may involve significant state aid support to a commercial economic undertaking without a procurement process. We took that step and SIRO withdrew from the process.