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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

Seán Fleming: We have an issue with that because we get bills for 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)

Seán Fleming: We are dealing with the topic of broadband and we will have an engagement with broadband providers. This is part of our consideration of the appropriation accounts for the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment. We will be engaging with a number of broadband providers in regard to our examination of the appropriation accounts for the Department. The committee decided...

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)

Seán Fleming: I thank Mr. Evans for his presentation. I call Deputy Murphy. There is a maximum of one hour per group, so I ask members to take no more than ten minutes for questions.

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)

Seán Fleming: Will Mr. O'Dwyer explain the term "MSE"?

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)

Seán Fleming: The managed services entity is a private company.

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)

Seán Fleming: This company carries out the job.

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)

Seán Fleming: I hope the representatives will understand if we ask them very basic questions.

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)

Seán Fleming: Will the Deputy read out the name of the report which came out yesterday?

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)

Seán Fleming: By whom was it produced?

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)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Deputy. It is great that this report came out yesterday. I have not seen it. Some of us might not be familiar with it. I will ask the secretariat to download it from the Department's website and circulate eight or ten copies. Can somebody arrange that? We will not all have it in our hands before the representatives leave, but we will be here for a few hours. It will be...

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)

Seán Fleming: Okay, that is fine. We are achieving something already this week.

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)

Seán Fleming: If a press release relating to the report has been issued from a Minister or anyone else in the Department, we will want to see it. If the report is a year old and miraculously arrived only 24 hours before this meeting, there must be people out there who pay heed to the Committee of Public Accounts, despite what some 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)

Seán Fleming: What year was the original tender?

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)

Seán Fleming: Forgive us for the questions we ask, but people do not know one company from another. Mr. Evans mentioned that BT manages the 999 emergency service.

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)

Seán Fleming: Could he tell the public, in a sentence, what that is because the public might not know BT does that.

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)

Seán Fleming: BT has that contract having won it by pubic tender.

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)

Seán Fleming: The public will be happy to hear that. The 999 service needs to be tightly managed, regulated and controlled.

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)

Seán Fleming: I only ask because, even though the committee members may have heard that before, a lot of people might not understand that BT does that on behalf of the State.

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)

Seán Fleming: In fairness, it is not the private sector's fault that the Government did not re-tender.

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)

Seán Fleming: Perfect.