Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan
9:30 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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To go back to the original position, I have a memory of several engagements that we had here. There was only one bidder for this contract and when it came down to it, people were put off from bidding. This is not the kind of scenario that some of them would have expected. There would have been people who were embedded in, and had expertise in, the market here but who then did not tender. This all seems very different from what the expectation was at the beginning.