Ms Carolan Lennon:

On the first point the Senator made, I do not understand that statement by the consultant or the bidder. I talked earlier about the passive product of the spare fibres that were built in when we were building the infrastructure to service the 300,000 households. Exactly the same rules apply to that passive product as apply to the poles and duct product that the bidder was happy to use. I do not understand why the bidder would say it did not want guarantee or rules on one product. All those products are regulated so exactly the same rules apply to poles ducts and NBI is very happy to use Eir's poles and ducts product so I do not understand that one.