Mr. Garrett Blaney:

The CRU's function is to ensure that it has got efficient use of the electricity system and it has to match the needs of the electricity users against telecoms users. From a ComReg point of view, the driver is the broadband cost reduction directive and it sets out clearly that our role comes in at the point a dispute arises. If a telecoms operator believes it does not have access to the infrastructure of another utility - it might be electricity, it might also be water or it might be gas or any other utility defined in that directive - and if a dispute arises, we have a role then to go along to try to solve it. Clearly, if that was to happen we would engage with the CRU and we would have a discussion with it at that point. That may arise at some point in the future but it has not arisen to date.