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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I am not fussy on timing if the Chairman wants to kick that back to a free date later in early summer. I am okay with that. I would hate to be confined to a ten or 15 minute slot at a meeting to deal with it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: There is no doubt that that will get lost. I am sure that other members have many issues relating to the justice Vote generally, so if I am depending on my own ten minute slot for the prison matters-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It would not be. I imagine that members would like to revisit some issues relating to the Prison Service. I am certainly not comfortable with the mess committees. I have been wrongly accused, externally, by the Prison Officers Association, of being interested in closing down the mess committees. That is not the issue at all, but the concern is that they are functioning correctly with...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Absolutely. While there is the justice Vote next week-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It might be able to touch on prison matters but one of the free meetings on the agenda could be set aside to have the Prison Service management back, and if the Secretary General comes with them, so be 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Marc MacSharry: I welcome all of our guests. I support Mr. Griffin’s idea of bringing the relevant officials from various sections in the Department who have the expertise to answer questions which may arise. It is an awful shame that his colleague in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform did not agree by bringing the chief procurement officer when we wanted to talk to him. Mr. Griffin...
- 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Marc MacSharry: Not at all. When the individual to whom I refer goes to the Central Bank, I am sure Mr. Griffin will be the new Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Marc MacSharry: The committee heard from some of the operators. BT in particular outlined-----
- 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Marc MacSharry: Yes, they were in jest. I am not on the interview board.
- 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Marc MacSharry: Yes, they were in jest. I do not want to implicate any of my colleagues and I am not on the interview board. At our meeting with service providers and representative organisations, BT suggested that it had first become aware of the fact that the MANs were prepared to be extended to the 2030 date from Parliamentary Questions Nos. 604 and 607 of 23 May 2017. It highlighted that there was a...
- 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Marc MacSharry: That is not my style as Mr. Griffin knows.
- 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Marc MacSharry: Basically, we had the contract in place and it provided for an extension for ten years in respect of both. We considered it internally. We got a report from Norcontel that seemed to affirm the Department's assumption that the best thing to do was extend with the current provider, which could be done contractually.
- 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Marc MacSharry: From a pricing perspective, would it have been prudent to consult the market?
- 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Marc MacSharry: This is Norcontel.
- 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Marc MacSharry: Would ComReg have had a role in that at all?
- 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Marc MacSharry: I understand that, but because of its expertise as a regulator, can the Department consult ComReg to seek its opinion as to whether it believes the Department is going in the right direction? Is it on the list of parties to be consulted for things like this?
- 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Marc MacSharry: Okay.
- 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Marc MacSharry: I know it does not regulate it, but it would obviously have expertise there. Does the Comptroller and Auditor General have a view on whether something like this should have been tendered for the extension?
- 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019) Marc MacSharry: Was Norcontel specifically asked if we should extend with the current operator? Was that the focus of the report?