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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)

David Cullinane: Which is the one that appeared 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)

David Cullinane: In simple terms, what did yesterday's report say about the pricing structure?

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)

David Cullinane: Therefore, the pricing structure is not transparent and open. We are here meeting the providers today. We see in this report, which was published yesterday and of which we were not made aware of, that one of the obvious issues in relation to the MANs was the pricing structure and the fact that it reminds static. Only that Deputy Catherine Murphy had it, we would not even be in a position...

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)

David Cullinane: A fair 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
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: Would Mr. Evans see as unfair the lack of a tendering process or the fact that there was not any competition, for example?

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)

David Cullinane: Mr. Evans stated he made a complaint. To whom did he complain?

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)

David Cullinane: If Mr. Evans had a view that there was a lack of transparency and a lack of fairness, how or to whom does he communicate that? Is it merely that he does it through the media?

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)

David Cullinane: What was the Department's response?

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)

David Cullinane: Was it that it was too late and tough luck?

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)

David Cullinane: That is interesting. At some point after we hear from the providers, we need the Department back in. We can put it to them.

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)

David Cullinane: Absolutely, I am not suggesting that. I am looking for their opinion as to why that happened.

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)

David Cullinane: They have put on the record that they did not believe it was transparent or fair. Most of us would agree with that. In relation to the national broadband plan, Mr. Evans stated he considered it. I appreciate the reasons, he stated then, that he did not continue. I understand the original proposal was meant to be for 840,000 homes, 300,000 of which were taken out and given to Eir. Did...

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)

David Cullinane: It might have, but I ask Mr. O'Dwyer to bear with me for a second. My understanding is - I have read all of the commentary in relation to this - that those 300,000 were some of the most commercially viable ones-----

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)

David Cullinane: I ask Mr. O'Dwyer to bear with me. We have had this discussion with the Secretary General who conceded that that had a bearing on the overall contract. Whatever about the rights and wrongs of it - I hear what Mr. O'Dwyer is saying - if it started off as 840,000 and Eir made that proposition to commercially invest in those 300,000, and they were the most commercially viable, did that have 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
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: I note BT looked at it and then, maybe, for different reasons, did not continue in the bidding process. Would Mr. Evans have seen that particular process as a transparent 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
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: Given that the one consortium that is left is unrecognisable from when it first started out, would that be a concern to Mr. Evans?

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)

David Cullinane: Raise 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)

David Cullinane: One final question relates more on a policy issue but it is one on which they might have an opinion. Ofcom in Britain is looking at providing a legal minimum broadband speed. That is one of the issues that is a source of public debate. What would be the witnesses opinion on introducing such a policy in this 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)

David Cullinane: That is very useful. It is probably useful for the sectoral committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Eir (14 Feb 2019)

David Cullinane: Five minutes is more than enough. I welcome Ms Lennon and Mr. Storey. I will start with the existing infrastructure. In the past couple of weeks there have been announcements by Eir, SIRO and Imagine Telecommunications Limited of increased investment in infrastructure. I live in and represent part of a rural constituency. In the past, issues were raised relating to old infrastructure,...