Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)

Professor Eoin Reeves:

We do not know. When Analysys Mason was before the committee last week, it could have been probed more deeply to try to understand why it does not have confidence in Eir's products. Again, we do not know the answer, but what we do know is that it seems to have been a major driver of the huge increase in the subsidy that the taxpayer will pay.