Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 November 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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We will try to wrap up the broadband part of it and then I can let the Deputy back in.

There is an issue with the further remedial plan. We should ask it what the legacy issues are. Hopefully, we are not going back into a lockdown. If we are not going back into a lockdown, there should not be legacy issues. There may be issues with the supply chain or something. I know that in construction there have been some issues with getting materials. We need to ask it that question and the rationale for that.

Is it carrying the cost of replacing and updating the existing infrastructure that it is using, which belongs to other companies? What is the annual rental cost of that infrastructure? We are looking for those clarifications, and we will come back to it.