Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No, I am not saying that, but they are being brought in for a completely different purpose, namely, to take the staff who have worked on the network roll-out, paid for by the State for the roll-out period. I am not denying it is great they will get employment elsewhere, but the question I am asking is why do this now. Why would we do something that may have the consequences of, in some way, undermining the national broadband roll-out here? It would be a different type of investor. Why would David McCourt not go with a completely different vehicle, nothing to do with NBI, and bring in those investors for some standalone project elsewhere? Why does it involve NBI?