Mr. Mark Griffin:

As part of the process, before we submit anything to the Minister or the Government we have to clearly set out our assessment of how this represents value for money and to demonstrate that. There will be a range of contractual obligations inserted. There will be post-contract governance. We will have local and international benchmarks. Many of the costs that arise are regulated by ComReg, such as the Eir pole and duct costs. We will have an overview of the procurement processes that the lead bidder will be undertaking for some of the sub-contracted work.

There is open book accounting so that we can look at the accounts of the final bidder. We know there is a high level design in place. We will be able to look at the deeper design on a deployment area basis, which represents approximately 5,000 premises, and see the costs arising there. There are clawback mechanisms, what is in place, all that kind of stuff. The Deputy can rest assured that we are doing the absolute level of due diligence that will be required, not just of us but expected by the Minister and the Government before they get any proposals put to them.