Mr. T.J. Malone:

The way it works is that we have made a request to Eir for ourselves. We believe our request is slightly separate to what is going on in the court at the moment and that they are unrelated matters. We made a request to Eir on that basis. ComReg backed it up and said that it is an unrelated matter and, therefore, Eir should engage with us. Eir feels it could prejudice its case. The case is only a matter of weeks away so Eir is holding off until it sees the direction of travel as to where that case goes.

Once that case is held and we see some direction of travel, our view would be that it could go two ways on this. We would like to engage with Eir and develop a product under our existing major infrastructure programme, MIP, agreement. It would speed things up if we could do it under that particular MIP. If that does not work and we have to apply through a regulated access product as it would go, it could take anywhere between 12 and 18 months before we would actually have a product that was available for us to speed up the programme. Therefore, while the direction of travel-----