Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Dónal Palcic:

If one looks at how the gap funding model works, and it came out in the report on the national broadband scheme yesterday, where there is economic value in an asset at the end of the contract, when it is going back to private ownership, the Indecon report indicates that should then lower the amount of subsidy. Accordingly, the higher that economic value is-----