Communications panel to probe broadband bid

Communications Minister Denis Naughten will today face the first of two public hearings over how a consortium involving businessman Denis O’Brien became the only bidder for the Government’s national broadband plan.

Mr Naughten will be at a communications committee meeting taking place just days after the Public Accounts Committee (OAC) agreed to examine the tendering process. Mr Naughten will be asked to clarify how just one consortium was left to bid for the plan.