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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)

Seán Fleming: If we ask a question that is obvious to Mr. O'Dwyer, so be it, but the public might not be as well up on this as he is. Is BT regulated by ComReg?

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: No, here.

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: Are all the providers regulated by ComReg?

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: My question is whether the metropolitan area networks, MANs, system is regulated by ComReg. This is where I am coming from.

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: That is what I picked up. I find it unusual that this report was commissioned by the Department. I wondered why the Department was involved, as surely we have a regulator that deals with all this. It should not still be in the hands of the Department. There is no regulator, effectively, in respect of the MANs. As we speak, there is a proposal that the regulator would examine aspects,...

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 have one last question so I understand what it being said here before Deputy MacSharry comes in. At the time of that contract being given for a managed services entity with the Department and at the time that contract was signed, the organisation that got the contract would not have been involved in the retail trade. Maybe on day one it was in compliance with the state aid rules....

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 will take this up with the Department. BT's concern would be that at the point of extending the contract, which was quite recently, certainly it did not meet the state aid rules at that point because it was an operator of the service and was doing the managed services entity process at the same time. Mr. Evans and Mr. O'Dwyer have a concern about that now.

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: That is something we will have to take up with the Department when we have it back in.

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 will ask 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)

Seán Fleming: I am sure the Deputy would agree that we now write directly to the Department on foot of what we have heard to get a copy.

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 Deputy has highlighted an issue there. We will write to the Department for clarification on foot of this conversation.

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: It is a risk.

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: Reference was made to that report when representatives of the Department appeared before the committee. We will have it circulated, if that has not already been done.

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: A 50% cut was announced 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: That cut was announced the day before this meeting but the Department has had this report for 12 months.

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: Where in the statement is that referenced?

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 statement by the Minister indicates that the connection fees for any product and the existence of any discounts should be published. That was to be implemented by Enet. Enet published that information 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: What level of price reduction is involved?

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 MANs contract has been in operation for many years. The Department was given the completed review a year ago. The committee scheduled a meeting with the providers at which, inevitably, such matters may be discussed. The day before the meeting, the Minister, Deputy Bruton, published a report which had been in the possession of the Department and recommended that the pricing should 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: Enet published the prices shorlty before the Minister said they should be published. Mr. Evans stated there has been a 50% reduction in the cost of new connections. I ask him to explain that to us in layman's language. A major reduction of approximately 50% in the price of the service provided through the metropolitan area network for a new connection was announced yesterday based on a...