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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: In that case, BT would be able to give it to us no problem, presumably.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: Was there any follow-up after the fact? The Department wrote back and thanked BT for its expression of interest but said that unfortunately the deal was done. Did BT follow up?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: Right, that was just the end of it. Any correspondence that is relevant that the witnesses may feel they are able to make available to us would be very welcome. That is all I have to say.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: A Deputy asked if the witnesses raised the issues of MANs generally. I would love to have that correspondence if the witnesses could consider it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: That is fine. The witnesses knew about this report since last year. If the witnesses asked for it, what response did they get from the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: I am not an expert and am learning all of this from what the witnesses are saying today. If this was published a year ago, would there have been a 50% reduction then?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: Would it have been more beneficial if it was out last year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: Ultimately, there would have been a trickling down period.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: We could have gone through it by now and I, the consumer, might have cheaper broadband.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I thank our guests for appearing before us voluntarily because they did not have to do so. I also thank them for their commitment to the north west and Sligo. We hope their new national call centre will based there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I hope recruitment for that is going well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Eir should tell all its commercial friends to come and do the same up in the north west.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: No problem. After 18 months of "Look, we have these issues. Can you address them? If you do, we'll go on", did Eir get a sense that there was no effort to answer its questions or did it feel that the Department was doing its best to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Was Eir strung along? Was it told that the issues would be dealt with, that it should not worry and that it should remain in the process?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Make no mistake - I will be asking it. I am just interested in Eir's perspective.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I understand that fully. Eir did that. It asked the Department questions and told it about its concerns. Did the Department say it would sort that out or that it would provide an answer? Was it a case that Eir was putting these questions and raising these matters of concerns and they were falling on deaf ears?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It was a case of "There is no point in flogging a dead horse. We need to get on with our own business." I understand that. When Eir indicated to the Department that it was pulling out of the process because it was not for it, did the Department say "Fair enough, good luck" or was there much of an effort to try to get Eir to stay in?
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: This committee has been told that there were exhaustive efforts involving dinners and lunches to keep people in the process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: That was what I was wondering. Would Ms Lennon or her predecessor-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Would Ms Lennon have a view on that?