Mr. John Mullins:

Part of our due diligence process is to engage with all the local authorities to understand exactly what they have. They will respond to all of that. We will know exactly what level is digital and what is not digital. We will carry out a full due diligence report and we will then come back and give the committee further information on that. This is part of the due diligence exercise and it is a foundation point in establishing exactly what we need to do in terms of the digital nature of our network. We have done it in terms of gas and we have the experience of that.

To return to the issue of subject matter experts, I will not comment on the qualifications of engineers or otherwise, but, as an engineer, I am pretty proud of the profession and, generally speaking, engineers do things fairly properly, otherwise things would not work. In the main, we are looking for subject matter experts in highly technical areas in chemical engineering, environmental engineering, hydrology, etc. We are not looking for other forms of experts to whom the Deputy may have been alluding. We are looking for specific expertise that is of a technical nature and international standing.