A bill providing for public ownership of the national broadband network at the end of the state’s €2.9bn proposed contract with Granahan McCourt will be published by the Labour Party on Tuesday.

The private member’s bill is designed to give statutory effect to a recommendation from the Oireachtas committee on communications, climate action and environment that the state retain ownership of the infrastructure. Its projected value by the end of the state-intervention period is €455m.

Seán Sherlock, the proposer of the bill, said that if it is passed by the Oireachtas and adopted by the government, the project might have to be re-tendered because of its altered terms.

“The government hasn’t signed off on the final bid yet. If this bill was passed, you would