Mr. John Tierney:

The scale of the necessary external service provision was clear since the very outset of Bord Gáis's submission. As we explained, we are talking here about a once in 20 years scenario in terms of spend and the cycles of development of a company. It was always going to require specialised mobile expertise to do the system building, create the product, that is, the utility, and deliver on the mandate being given to that utility in terms of assets, operations and serving 1.8 million customers.