Mr. Patrick Neary:

It is important to bring the discussion back to the tender we have received and the decision Granahan McCourt has made to use only the polls and ducts rather the active product Eir is using to connect to its fibre. The bidder's network design starts in the metropolitan area networks, MANs. It has to traverse the 300,000 area before it gets to the intervention area. Starting in the MANS means it is not getting the same cost savings from reusing the fibre that Eir would get if it were to reuse that fibre. We went into an in-depth analysis with Granahan McCourt on the benefit or otherwise of reusing that fibre on the 300,000 area. It demonstrated to us that it did not achieve the same cost savings from its design by reusing that fibre and that it was actually cheaper for it to deploy its own fibre and just rent the polls and ducts. Its design decision-----