Mr. Michael Mahon:

We did not engage with Eir until the figure of 300,000 was confirmed. The first thing we did was redesign entirely. As part of that, we considered the option of using the Eir infrastructure with the information we had, which was based on estimations from certain towns. It is not off the shelf. We had a number of interventions with Eir. SIRO had these over two or three months but the information was not forthcoming at that point. We also engaged with ComReg and the Department to push it along. We got to a point where we were not getting sufficient engagement to properly consider the matter in any revised proposal.