Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Matt Yardley:

I would like to deal with it now because there are a few aspects to it which I would like to go through in detail. We should be clear that the figures of €800 million and €2.789 billion quoted by the Deputy refer to the subsidy. Our role on this project is on the technical side and understanding the costs. As I stated in my opening submission, we are very much focused on capital expenditure and operating expenditure. The subsidy is separate. It takes those costs as an input, but it is also calculated taking into account future relevance-----