Mr. Mark Griffin:

I do not think there was a lack of appreciation. During the course of the dialogue with the companies, matters came up that required further evaluation and analysis by the Department and its advisers. We had to do additional work on the map, which would not have been predicted, by virtue of the fact that Eir decided to roll out broadband to 300,000 premises. That could not have been predicted. Extra elements of complexity were added that prolonged certain parts of the dialogue process.