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 Rose Conway WalshRose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein)
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Ms Lennon will see that when Eir says it can deliver this project for less than €1 billion, people raise their eyebrows. It is the job of this committee to get to the bottom of that. One could also look at this in another way in terms of Eir pulling out of the tendering process in 2017. Did Eir not get what it wanted at that stage? It was allowed to cherry-pick the 300,000 most lucrative homes in rural Ireland. Could it not have been this that derailed the whole process?