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
Mr. Barry Kelly:
No. It is the same thing we are talking about. The €32.7 million was bid costs that were incurred by the investors across a four-year period. That covered between 80 and 100 people working on the bid. That included a core team that worked on it full time plus legal, financial, technical and design advisers. It got to the stage that when the bid got handed over, it was not just a folder that got delivered to the Department; a van pulled up with all the data. They had to come up with a full high-level design for the entire-----