Mr. Peter Smyth:

I did not interview anybody from SIRO and Eir. If one reads the report, there are a number of meetings and one-on-ones with the CEO of Eir but the focus of those meetings was all on Eir's roll-out of fibre to the home to 300,000 homes. It seems to have focused exclusively on that subject because that was where Eir saw the key advantage to it.

The former Minister also had four meetings with the CEO of Vodafone. The focus there was Vodafone's broadband expansion outside the process and its mobile broadband.

The former Minister did meet the other bidders. He had engagements and one-on-ones. One of the meetings with the CEO of Eir was a breakfast meeting. It was followed by a coffee meeting with the CEO of Vodafone, followed by the launch of the Vodafone Internet of things. There are different dates on which there were meetings overlapping.