Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I have written to the Minister of State, so I have given him notice of many of my questions on the national broadband plan. I thank him for the letter I received yesterday. To put it on the record of the House, my questions to the Minister of State, which were in December and he may address them in his answers, were whether his Department had been notified about whether the principal investors or funders of the national broadband plan were about to exit the deal in December, whether replacement funding was being sought, whether there were change of control provisions in place that required the Minister of State’s oversight if the principal investor were to exit the deal early, whether there were primary controls around milestone payments and the status of that from the Minister of State's perspective, whether the Minister of State was concerned about the ability of National Broadband Ireland, NBI, to continue if there was a cash flow issue, the visibility of the Minister of State and the Department over National Broadband Ireland’s finances, as well as its ability to sustain the cost of deployment, and the impact of Covid-19 on the national broadband plan in terms of the proportion delivered and what that was relative to expectations.

The Minister of State is aware of my questions. I thank him for the reply and I just wanted to make the House aware. Perhaps the Minister of State will acknowledge those questions and then I will have two or three more short questions for him.

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