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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I ask Mr. Godfrey to clarify why it is not available. Is it because an incumbent had not moved off the spectrum? Were there issues-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Yes, I know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I thank Ms Connolly for her opening statement and presentation. Has KPMG any ongoing relationship with Granahan McCourt or any of its companies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Does anybody from within Ms Connolly's team have any role in that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: There is no potential for cross-contamination in any shape or form.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I thank Ms Connolly. In her opening statement, she said that KPMG had provided advice on the design of the procurement process. In hindsight, is KPMG happy with the advice it provided?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Does KPMG accept that the advice it provided to follow a particular route did not meet the key principle set out in that objective?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: It is the Government and the EU that are at fault, then, for a procurement process that KPMG takes credit for designing and that left one bidder in the race before it was concluded.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: I refer Ms Connolly to the advice KPMG provided in the ownership report of 3 July 2015. On page 24, there is a description of ownership options and the key principle set out in that chart states that "intervention is structured so that the subsidy provided is the minimum amount necessary to allow for infrastructure development by the private sector whilst ensuring that the returns earned by...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: In her presentation, Ms Connolly referred to the withdrawal of Siro and there having been two submissions at a particular stage from Granahan McCourt and Eir. She stated that in their detailed solution submission, both of the bidders that remained in the procurement projected significantly higher levels of subsidy than the Department's budget model. Can Ms Connolly talk to us about the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Did KPMG advise on that? Did it help to prepare it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Does KPMG accept responsibility for that budget model being considerably out of kilter with what was ultimately submitted?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: When was that information supposed to come? Was it at a point when the submissions came in? How could it be that much out of step? Maybe it was not that much out of step. What was the nature of the gap between what KPMG projected as the Department's budget model and what was actually submitted by the two bidders? What was the scale of the difference between the two?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Would it be fair to say the Department's budget model was of the order of €500 million?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: It was a higher number and the €1 billion on top of that was the order of the difference.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: It seems to be a considerable difference, considering the company's experience in Northern Ireland, the north of England, Australia and elsewhere. Does Ms Connolly consider that the company has failed in its advice in that regard? Based on its experience, it was not able to get a closer analysis of the costs involved.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: The industry view over time was that the Department had budgeted a set amount of money and there was a belief among bidders that this was all that was available. There is certainly a very strong view that SIRO pulled out because it did not think it was possible to put a business model together based on what the State would provide by way of subsidy. As a result, we wound up without true...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Does Ms Connolly not accept that the apportionment of risk, which would have been a variable in the event of there being competition, was effectively compromised? There was only one bidder and the State, depending on whether a contract was ever signed, appears to be carrying the vast majority of the risk. Granahan McCourt's proposal, as we understand, based on what the Taoiseach has told us...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: Yes, that brings me to the private sector bidder. Where is the risk being transferred to? What entity carries the risk?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (5 Jun 2019)
Timmy Dooley: In transferring risk to an entity with a considerable reputation, does Ms Connolly believe Granahan McCourt has the weight of reputation that can carry the risk?