Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 May 2019

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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The key points in the involvement of my Department in this process up to this point were between December 2015 and July 2016, when we made a decision on a gap-funding model, across 2018, when there was considerable engagement on the cost-benefit analysis, and towards the latter part of 2018, when the need to examine alternatives became apparent. My Department was heavily involved in the latter.

We were involved in the gap-funding approach and recommended it.