Mr. Mark Griffin:

I do not want to appear to be making excuses but I am conscious of a couple of things. There is a company called Enet in Limerick which employs 100 people and I want to ensure that the engagement on both sides of the table reflects the factual position as well as possible. The Analysys Mason report made comparisons between the price of dark fibre for Enet and ComReg and used international comparators. It stated that benchmarks of dark fibre prices are not widely available. Dark fibre wholesale offers are not common, and those that are available do not have published prices. Analysys Mason had to go to Sweden because of the absence of good national comparators and said that the prices vary according to different areas of the country.