Mr. Mark Griffin:

There is nothing to preclude, per se, the use of ESB infrastructure. The rules that apply at both national and EU level require providers of major infrastructure to allow their infrastructure to be used in certain circumstances. The whole thesis of the national broadband plan intervention area is that we reuse as much as we can. In some places, that may involve the reuse of ESB infrastructure. We have approximately 1,000 different deployment areas of approximately 5,000 premises each. When we get to the low-level design for each area, we will discuss with the contractor what is the most economical way to roll out broadband in that particular area.