Mr. Fergal Mulligan:

There are protections in the contract to make sure nothing silly will go on. For aesthetic reasons, people may not want to have a couple of poles along the side of their garden and may want to have the whole place dug up. In that situation we say to consumers that they should have to make a contribution towards the cost. It is cheaper to place the poles along the side of a ditch, for example, rather than have an underground duct right up to the front door. We have catered for all of this within the contract to make sure we will not spend money in a situation where the consumer chooses to have the cable run underground.