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

Mr. Mark Griffin:

I probably want the Deputy to clarify what the instance is because, to make a general point, where issues are brought to the attention of the Department, we would consider whether they are matters for the Department and the Minister to deal with. We did that in the case of the review of the board that was undertaken by Conleth Bradley. Where we are in receipt of other information, we would undertake the exact same process of considering whether these are matters that are appropriate to the Department or that fall directly within the governance and management functions of IFI, and we would make the call at that point. If things need to be investigated further by the Department under whatever pieces of legislation are available to us, we will do that.