Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 May 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion

Photo of Jonathan O'BrienJonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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The report refers to the alternatives; if a contract is cancelled, it goes back to an open procedure with an electronic submission of tenders. The report lists about 12 or 13 of them. No further information is provided about four, and one of them was the negotiated procedure without prior publication. There are no details of how long that would take although the report gives details of approximate times for the rest of them.