Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Let us say it was five years, as per the view from the KPMG witness. If the project was parked and restarted with a different funding model that was suitable to Eir's requirements as a company, what would prevent Eir's parent company from saying, three years into the process, that it should forget it? Eir was bought in April and its new French owner commented that its focus is on urban development. As a company, it is possible that perhaps based on what has happened in this committee that the project could be retendered but who is to say that some time into the project, Eir could walk away? Is that not fair to say?