Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would expect that. I have a question on the ownership. Ms Ball might be unable to discuss this because it is not her area, but if there are questions she is unable to answer, perhaps she could ask the relevant group to provide the answers for us at a later stage. They relate to the ownership model that has been followed, which is the gap funding model. PwC did work on the broadband strategy for Ireland at one point and examined the various ownership models. Like others, it identified the gap funding model as potentially the best route to take for a number of reasons, which it set out. They are well documented and are included in the documentation provided to us. Does Ms Ball accept that as the tendering and procurement processes moved on and SIRO, the ESB and Vodafone as a consortium pulled out, many of the benefits that were attached to the thinking at the time that supported the gap funding model were no longer reasons to continue with it? Does she also accept that the case for the model was weakened significantly by the exit of SIRO and Eir?