Mr. Brian McHugh:

Again, what we said is that a regulator should look at this, get into the detail and drive a market that actually delivers for consumers. The detail will be up to the regulator. What we see elsewhere is bigger areas. A local authority might divide it into two or three. It depends on the geography and the number of consumers. The goal they would have is they want to bring in new entrants, someone who would see this contract over however many years and say, "I'm going to come into Ireland with my new ideas and service and set up because the contract is quite attractive to me". Currently, there is no mechanism in the waste sector in Ireland where anyone would come in and try to start from scratch. It just would not make business sense. The design of what area it will be, how long the contract will be and how many people will be in it will be part of the regulatory design.