Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 June 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)
Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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We can follow that up.
Moving on to Granahan McCourt, the preferred bidder, Mr. Yardley replied to the Chairman's question on the technical capability and suitability of the company and whether it had met all the milestones set out. We are given those milestones as having been handed down on a tablet of stone from somewhere. When we compare Granahan McCourt with the other two main bidders, there certainly does not seem to be the same level of expertise, experience, project management and deployment of broadband services. Was a desktop study done? Did Analysys Mason examine networks that were built by the bidders? How did these companies pass the technical suitability test?