Dáil committee calls for freeze of €3bn broadband project

The Government’s multi-billion euro broadband plan is at risk of being derailed after an Oireachtas committee called for a three-month freeze of the project to force a re-examination of its €3bn cost and the entire tendering process.

The communications committee demanded the action in a non-binding report, which also insisted that any broadband system must not be privatised and that preferred bidder, Granahan McCourt, should potentially be replaced by ESB or Eir.