Ms Joanna Murphy:

The easiest thing in the world would have been to pull down the shutter on this initiative. That would have been the path of least resistance. We do not wish to do that. We seek to continue and to grow. Every day we are blown away by people, such as the two gentlemen on my right hand side, who have chosen this country. To reiterate, I do not believe that this is a them-and-us situation. There is little wrong with this initiative that a few people in a room with a constructive frame of mind could not resolve in a number of hours. Issues such as verification and red lighting can be resolved. There is not much wrong with it. It is okay that there are gaps and that these things did not exist. The programme is new and, if members will excuse the phrase, one does not throw the baby out with the bathwater. One figures out where the issues are and resolves them. That is what ConnectIreland seeks to do, and that is why we did not trigger an arbitration. We did not want to. We want to continue on behalf of our network across the globe. We feel enormously pressurised in the context of Monday. How do we tell those companies? What do we say to them? We have not figured that out yet, to be honest.