Mr. Ciarán Ó hÓbáin:

Perhaps what we are not communicating as clearly as we need to is that the mapping process and the process by which operators could have included on the map their infrastructure that was in place or planned, in such a way that it would reduce the area for State intervention, has been in place since the outset of the procurement. The same process with the same criteria was in place for the 2015 evaluation of the Eir 300,000 premises proposal as was applied to the 2016 process that concluded in 2017.