Mr. Peter Hendrick:

No. Low-level design only becomes apparent when we are surveying. I will give an example.

Across the country there are 1.4 million poles. We have to test all of these poles to see which ones need to be replaced. We make an assumption of how many poles need to be replaced based on evidence from the past. Take Eir's 300k network. When it was building the 300k network, it replaced faulty poles. We made an assumption of what that percentage was through engagement with Eir. As we start to roll out across more rural parts of the network, we start to see different percentages. This means we have to reassess the volumes we put forward for the programme for the year ahead. We can never understand what these issues are until we have gone down and tested the infrastructure on the ground. We will never know how many blockages we have per kilometre in terms of putting cables into ducts without doing detailed surveys.