Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)
Joe O'Reilly (Fine Gael)
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I will ask a brief question before we abandon this. A great deal of the information has come out. Let us say that the witnesses' hypothesis or proposition is that the State-led model would be better. Have they evaluated that model in terms of the cost inputs required to reach the sector of the community that we are trying to reach, the longevity of maintenance and so on? Have the witnesses undertaken a cost-benefit analysis of it?