Ms Carolan Lennon:

No. It was not a wholesale pricing issue. Our pricing is regulated, so we just accept that. The issue was all of the incremental cost and complexity of managing another wholesale business. Eir is the largest wholesaler in the country in this area. We have fantastic expertise and we did not want to have to recreate all of that. We had spent 18 months raising these issues and got no traction. The summer before the ISDS was due in September Mr. Moat contacted the Minister-----