Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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218. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his responsibilities with regard to the costs of the national broadband plan. [7649/19]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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My role as Minister is set out in the Public Service Management Act, 1997 which states that a Minister of the Government having charge of a Department shall, in accordance with the Ministers and Secretaries Acts, 1924 to 2017, be responsible for the performance of functions that are assigned to the Department pursuant to any of those Acts. My Department's management of the expenditure on the NBP is in line with Public Financial Procedures and in compliance with the Public Spending Code.

The procurement process to appoint a bidder for the State intervention network is now at the final stage. My priority is to bring the procurement process to a fair and impartial conclusion as quickly as possible and I will bring a recommendation to Government in this regard in the coming weeks, which will include information on cost.