Mr. Mark Griffin:

We do not believe the extent of the additional burden placed on Eir by virtue of the contract was of the order that its representatives seemed to suggest at the hearings before the committee last week. It appeared to suggest we required whole separate teams and that Eir could not use its existing wholesale team of 80 staff and so on. However, that was not the case. Obviously, we needed a clear line of sight for the €2.1 billion to be channelled into whatever entity won the contract and that was a critical piece. However, that did not mandate a duplication of systems, staff or other infrastructure in the Eir organisation. Mr. Mulligan might want to comment on that.