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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
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BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: It was done at that stage.
- 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 going to chance my arm here and ask a private company if it would be prepared to give us that correspondence.
- 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: It would be delighted, I am sure.
- 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 going way off the reservation here but if BT was prepared to give us the correspondence it sent and got back in respect of this, it just might equip us in terms of timelines. What is being indicated here is very concerning. If the witnesses were prepared to consider that, it would be very useful for our work.
- 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: The implications of what we have heard certainly make a mockery out of the Dáil, answering questions and all of that stuff.
- 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: Of course we can ask the Department and I know I am chancing my arm. There is certainly no onus on the witnesses but I am saying that if they were so inclined, we would really appreciate a copy of the correspondence.
- 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
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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?