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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: What is the lower one?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: That are costing us €2 billion to mind the €1 billion we are investing. They are quare rules.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: We will have to agree to differ. As I said, I register my disappointment there was no adequate content in the then Minister’s letter to assure me or anybody belonging to me or I represent that a thorough investigation had taken place in order to respond to it in the way it should have been responded to. In conferring preferred bidder status on Granahan McCourt Capital, GMC, in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: There is not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: Preferred bidder status does not mean anything legally or there is no-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: What does it mean?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: Is there a contractual obligation to complete the contract?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: Is there a contractual obligation to complete the contract on foot of conferring preferred bidder status?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: Mr. Griffin can say definitively that if the State was to withdraw from the process in favour of arranging a new tendering process to take advantage of Eir’s proposal, it would not be liable in any way, shape or form, to Granahan McCourt.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: Preferred bidders.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: Mr. Ó hÓbáin is saying the Government is obliged to sign the contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: I am sorry for interrupting, but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: As will I.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: So Mr. Ó hÓbáin-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: It is and a very expensive one if the Department does not proceed. It has stated categorically, in conferring preferred bidder status on Granahan McCourt, that the company has met the criteria laid down to deliver the project for the State.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: If Eir's proposal, therefore, was one that could be supported, what would the Department do then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: Has Mr. Griffin sat down to discuss the matter with Eir? Is he stating the Department cannot step out of the process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: Would there be a cost to the State if that were to happen, considering that preferred bidder status has been given to Granahan McCourt? In doing so, the Department, on behalf of the State, has acknowledged that the company has met the criteria, has done all that it has asked it to do and has the capacity to and will deliver the project.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: If the Department steps outside that process now, it will not have much luck in court-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Jul 2019)
Barry Cowen: With the best will in the world, the Department would not be able to take on Eir's proposal if was to be substantiated.