Mr. Ciarán Ó hÓbáin:

The first question at the end of the 25 years is what the value of the 25 year old fibre would be. It could be fibre that would have to be replaced at that point. As it is a gap funded model, under the contract the assets are owned by the bidder. I am not going too far into the contract by saying that it provides that at year 25 the bidder can continue to use those assets, if it would be obliged to, for a further ten years to continue to provide services to all the people connected to that network or the business could revert to the State.