Mr. T.J. Malone:

Eir has 1.466 million poles that we are utilising on the build and we are using many if not all of those poles where possible. When we started we thought we would need somewhere around 100,000 new additional poles.

The evidence suggests that figure will be lower, but we will not know the final figure until we have the low-level design completed, which will be approximately a year and a half from now.