Mr. Mark Griffin:

I will ask Mr. Ó hÓbáin to come in on this. My recollection is that there was a review undertaken by Analysys Mason to look at pricing and a number of other issues in respect of the MANs, in particular how the pricing affected connected companies. That review was completed and 13 recommendations were made. The then Minister, Deputy Bruton, referred it to ComReg to review. ComReg got PwC to assist. The report was published. The 13 recommendations were implemented. As part of that, one of the issues that was found during the course of the review was it was hard to establish what a reasonable benchmark would be for the cost of dark fibre but in the heel of the hunt, Enet reduced the cost of dark fibre to €2.60 per metre. There was a substantial reduction in dark fibre.

The cost of fibre under the national broadband plan in the intervention area and all the other commercial areas that are being upgraded at present is a matter for the market. One of the advantages, from the perspective of the national broadband plan, I think I am right in saying, is that they have bought forward in very substantial terms the stock of fibre to be rolled out on the network.

I do not know if there is anything further on the MANs.