Ms Helen Dixon:

There is no contract there. Obviously, NBI is under contract from the Minister and the Department in terms of its roll-out to the intervention area. It is under specific obligations and must install regardless of the difficulties and cost in that intervention area. For the commercial wholesale providers such as SIRO, Virgin Media and Eir, there is no contract. They simply contract with individual retail providers but there is no contract with an area, location or estate that obligates them to install fibre lines.