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. Mark Griffin:

Those are payments over a five- to six year period. When it is averaged out, I would deem it to be the level of investment that we require to make sure that we have a fit for purpose contract and design, and that the complexity of this, which I have set out in my opening statement, was addressed as part of the procurement process. Now that we are post-procurement, that due diligence is being applied. If the Deputy is asking if we will spend to the same extent as we spent in the past, my priority is to ensure that we have controls in place in the Department-----