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. Fergal Mulligan:
On the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform review, critical to it was its review of the cost-benefit analysis. I refer to the benefits of this project as perceived in 2017 and 2018. This project is, ultimately, all about these benefits. We talk about the costs ad nauseam, but there are also huge benefits for every citizen, home and family from the rolling out of high-speed broadband.