Mr. Robert Mourik:

ComReg regulates the pole and duct prices of Eir and it is part of the regulation of all civil engineering access infrastructure that Eir owns. Broadly speaking, we regulate prices and a number of functional requirements of poles and ducts work.

I will first address the question about pricing.

When we, as regulators, say to a company like Eircom that they have to open up their depots and ducts, it is logical that they can charge a price for that. We set that price. What we do here, and what we have done, is that we have said that Eircom may charge no more than its effectively incurred costs. What that means is that we look at the actual cost but we then set a price that is more related to what an efficient operator in the market would charge. We do not allow inefficiencies that Eircom may have to be paid for by competitors in the market. The measure here, and that is a European standard, is that Eircom can pass on efficiently incurred costs. The last time that we calculated that was in 2016. We have kicked off a review of that pricing internally now and we are going to consider whether the use of poles and ducts should be any different in the context of the NBP or whether-----