Mr. Fergal Mulligan:

We can put it in context. On the map on the screen we can look at the west of Ireland, Galway or anywhere else. The blue and light blue areas show what commercial operators will serve and the rest is amber. Whether the amber areas change by a premise here or there because of the intervention of a commercial operator, our intervention will still be required. When we looked at this in 2015 and 2016, there were choices and there are still choices today. We looked at them in 2015 and we consistently look at them; we reappraised the project in 2018 after Eir left. We continue to do it because we do not want to do the wrong thing. If we want to cover 100% of every townland in Galway, taking in every family, we must do it. If a commercial company connects some of them along the way, the issue does not change.