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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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: Is that process part of the assessment that is being 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: A recommendation is made for a preferred bidder and it goes to the Cabinet. Will that then be an indicative cost or an actual cost?

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)

David Cullinane: Can there be an overrun?

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)

David Cullinane: I understand all of that. Hopefully if a contract is signed it will be on the basis of an actual cost.

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)

David Cullinane: Mr. Griffin cannot tell us what the actual cost will be for obvious reasons.

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)

David Cullinane: We will know it at that point. Is Mr. Griffin saying that it will be impossible to go beyond 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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

David Cullinane: That will be the cost. Is Mr. Griffin confident that the project will go ahead?

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)

David Cullinane: Who is part of the assessment process? Are the Department and Mr. Griffin part of the assessment process?

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)

David Cullinane: I have a question about the assessment process. Are a number of options contained in the assessment process? Has the Department examined all options, including potentially not proceeding?

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)

David Cullinane: Mr. Griffin might tell us what those alternatives would be. If the Department is doing an assessment, it must examine at all the options.

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)

David Cullinane: There was a report in the Irish Independentrecently on foot of the Taoiseach's appearance before the finance committee. He told that committee that he could not give a guarantee that the project would go ahead until the final contracts were signed, and that he and the Government would await the assessment. As part of that assessment - and the Department is overseeing that work - has the...

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)

David Cullinane: When the assessment process is complete, which Mr. Griffin said is near conclusion, is it possible that it will give a number of options to the Government? I accept it is a matter for the Government. The Government will decide what is the best course of action and ultimately on how to proceed. Regarding the information it will get from the Department on foot of the assessment process, will...

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)

David Cullinane: I am not, in fact, as Cabinet confidentiality is based on the decisions Cabinet makes.

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)

David Cullinane: I am not asking which recommendations are involved. I am asking if it is possible, to put it a different way, that a number of different options, rather than recommendations as such, will be put to Government which will then decide what to go for or will there be a clear recommendation? Is that a fair way to put 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)

David Cullinane: So it is a clear recommendation.

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)

David Cullinane: The cost will be very clear as well.

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)

David Cullinane: Mr. Griffin also said in his opening remarks that the technology solution was fibre to premises and that it would also involve maximising the use of pole infrastructure. Is it therefore the case that it will not all be underground?

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)

David Cullinane: I think the Taoiseach said it was all going to be underground. Can Mr. Griffin clarify for us that it is not the case? What percentage of it will be underground?

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)

David Cullinane: Mr. Neary might have a word with the Taoiseach also.

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)

David Cullinane: I really do not need an indepth response. My questions are whether it is the case that it is not all going to be underground and what percentage of it will be.