Mr. Fergal Mulligan:

I will explain what we have done. I will not give exact numbers because, again, that is commercial. I will outline how we arrived at our numbers and how all the bidders arrived at theirs in the context of the models one does to arrive at the best estimate. Of course, one does not know the actual cost until one gets to the driveway, farm or wherever because one has to count the number of poles and so forth. We have spent two or three years at it in conjunction with the consultation with bidders since 2016 and everybody has their best estimates of cost. Through the technical data we have now and the CSO data we have every Eircode postcode in the country mapped. We have worked with ComReg on that as it has that for its own regulatory reasons. We have every road in the country mapped through GeoDirectory and all the mapping tools we have these days. We have every metre in the country covered in terms of how much road network there is, which is approximately 100,000 km. We know how many poles would be needed, how many new poles would be needed and how many poles will be needed to get from the curtilage of a road to a house. That is all mapped and modelled. That gives us the route length, how many metres of fibre are needed, how many poles are needed and what is likely to be underground and over ground. They are the best estimates we have. We have numbers - the numbers by house and the average numbers by 500,000 houses. We know what the likely most expensive home will be and we know what the cheapest home will be. We have all that information internally.