Results 7,661-7,680 of 34,663 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will resume our engagement with broadband providers. We have been busy all day meeting a number of groups. I welcome Enet, and thank its representatives for being here. They are here voluntarily to assist the committee and to provide information to us. We are here to listen and learn. The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment appeared before this committee some...
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: He probably knows a little bit more than the rest of us. We decided that we needed to inform ourselves, and we are pleased to have so many people appearing before us today. We thank them all for coming. All of the information we are using and gathering will be distilled in due course. When we speak to the Department about the national broadband plan and other issues we will be far better...
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We will note and publish it, but if Mr. McCarthy is talking about this statement, which looks like it would take ten minutes, we are happy for him to read it into the record. Everyone watching will want to hear what he has to say. It is fine for us; we have the opening statement in front of us. However, it is no good if we have the document while the people watching do not know what is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: For clarification, Mr. McCarthy said that Enet was a subcontractor to the bidder, NBI. Who is NBI?
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Who are they?
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Enet is only a subcontractor, even though the bid has your name on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Mr. McCarthy is saying the Irish Infrastructure Fund has purchased a 78% stake in Enet from Granahan McCourt.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: In Enet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: We were a bit confused and had a letter today from the NTMA about the structure. The Irish Infrastructure Fund has units but not a shareholding. We are trying to get our heads around who is who. Who owns NBI?
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Has there been a change in the ownership structure of the main bidder? I thought Granahan McCourt was the bidder from day 1. A lot of people are utterly lost as to the sequence of this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: And still is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is helpful. At prequalification, the financial side of the consortium is coming through Granahan McCourt and Enet, as the key subcontractor, has a proven track record of being able to deliver as an operator in the system with operational knowledge of this type of project. Mr. McCarthy must be the most modest person ever to have appeared at the Committee of Public Accounts because...
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Hardware.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: That is very helpful. Has Mr. McCarthy covered the point or is there more?
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Perhaps, because it is so late, if he is free after, can he forward that document so we can read it in due course, as part of our further consideration. He can send it on to us rather than reading it now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Seán Fleming: Yes.