Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Timmy DooleyTimmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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In effect, what the State and its consultants did in designing this level playing field so there could be true competition, was ultimately at a cost to the taxpayer. We will have had pure competition, but purely for the sake of it, and it will cost the taxpayer €2 billion.