Mr. Mark Griffin:

One could. The Deputy referred to the national procurement framework. Contracts and agreements are written in a particular way. This was written in, crystal clear, that after the first 15 years of the contract, it was open to the contract authority to secure an extension of up to ten further years. That was there from 2004 when we had the first concession agreement. It was replicated in 2009 for the other MANs. To be honest, if I came before the Committee of Public Accounts in 12 months, or even now, and I said I had a report from Norcontel stating this was the most preferable option, we had done some preliminary desk work which found we would accrue €21 million in extra benefit and we would provide greater certainty to the telecom operators and the sector, but we decided to go in another direction-----