Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 February 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
National Broadband Plan Expenditure and Related Matters

9:30 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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We will probably come back to the Department on that later. Are the funds committed secure? Is there a legal contract? Some of the funds look like reasonably short-term loans that are expensive and have an end date. Have they been secured or can these investors withdraw? What are the circumstances in which they can withdraw?