Mr. Fergal Mulligan:

On that issue, we have worked with all of the bidders since 2016. We have spent 800 or 900 hours working with the engineers. I am back to the issue of who can deliver this project. On our side, there have been ten or 20 experts in attendance at each meeting with the opposition - the three bidders - with ten or 20 commercial, technical and legal experts. The technical experts with whom we dealt across all the bidders, including the remaining bidder, are people who worked for 30 or 40 years on the Eircom network or a Vodafone network. They are all Irish-based engineers with 20, 30 or 40 years of experience. One of the head experts on the side of the bidder with whom I deal every day started off in the Department of Posts and Telegraphs and built the Eircom network. That is the type of person on the current bid team. Obviously, people moved around in various companies. We are not dealing with people who have just flown in from New York and are telling us how to build a network here. They are indigenous, home-based people who have worked on the Irish networks, mobile and fixed, for the past 30 years.