Mr. Mark Griffin:

There are two parts to that question. I will deal with one of them and then I will ask my colleague, Fergal Mulligan to come in. One part of it is the question that the Deputy posed to me at a previous committee meeting on the pricing of products on the Enet services, the MAN services, which are part of the overall NBP infrastructure at this stage. A number of issues were raised in the Analysys Mason report including inter-company transfer pricing and whether Enet was complying with the terms of the contract that we have in place for the concession agreement on the MANS. The former Minister asked ComReg to review that. ComReg commissioned PwC to carry out that review. The report has been submitted to us. My understanding is that in overall terms, the report is positive regarding Enet's compliance with the concession agreement. Subject to final clearance internally according to our own procedures, our intention is to publish the report, probably as early as next week. It may drift into the following week.

The second point raised by the Deputy is the equivalency of pricing for people living in rural Ireland to people living in urban Ireland, if I am picking her up correctly, and how that is managed in terms of connection costs. I ask Fergal Mulligan, who is the programme director for the national broadband plan, to comment on that issue.