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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) Kate O'Connell: The social benefits, yes. I wish to follow up on the questions about the parent company of Enet. What sort of investors are involved? Are they American investors or Irish pension funds? Mr. Mulligan referred to the head of the company. Is the money coming from standard pension funds and so on or from elsewhere? Who is paying the bills?
- 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) Kate O'Connell: ...of cable running down the middle of a road is serving 20 houses and the Department predicts that five of them will connect right now, but 15 of them connect, obviously that means far more money for Enet.
- 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) Kate O'Connell: Mr. Griffin referred to a figure of €30 million on top of the €176 million for the value of the MANS and the Enet investment. Can we clarify that the asset is still ours?
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Kate O'Connell: One of the companies - it might have been Imagine - stated that the cable extended 13 km to the mast. Enet brings the cable to the mast and, in effect, the broadband companies ping off the mast.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Enet is essentially the spine of the process and everybody else radiates from it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Questions were being asked about the existing infrastructure and Bord Gáis networks. Mr. McCarthy referred to Enet having use of that. Will he elaborate on that? It was not discussed earlier and from what I heard, I had the impression that the networks were almost redundant. He indicated that Enet has capacity in that regard.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Kate O'Connell: ...to the extension. I heard Mr. McCarthy explaining it to Deputy Catherine Murphy. From July 2014, there was less than six years to run on the first phase. Is that correct? As a business then, Enet was wondering what it would do in six years. Is that what Mr. McCarthy was saying?
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Kate O'Connell: That all seems to make sense now. We could have done with the representatives from Enet being in first this morning. It might have been handier if we did everything in reverse order. Would the witnesses like to add anything further? We are at the end and perhaps there are things we have not asked about that might help our discussions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Enet (14 Feb 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Enet is regulated in that respect. BT has SMP in some cases and, hence, is regulated. Am I right?