Ms Carolan Lennon:

Absolutely. Right off the bat, the Department gave us the detailed communications protocol and we were very happy with that. There was no issue there. As part of that there were regular meetings with the Department's team for the NBP. I was at many of those meetings in my previous role. We were raising those issues for 18 months. We started raising them in August 2016. To be honest, those issues never changed and across that entire 18 months the issues remained the same. As we worked through the process we knew the September date for the detailed submission was approaching. Our chief executive officer got in touch in writing with the Minister in July and they met in August as part of an overall meeting on communications infrastructure and investment. He raised those issues-----