Mr. Paul Mullins:

A question was raised about the Competition Authority. The authority was asked to investigate this transaction but it deemed it to be too small. It was reassured when it spoke with a senior executive of Údarás na Gaeltachta who was involved in the process. The executive assured the authority that because Arramara did not control the resource there was no competition element. What surprises me is that the same executive was not aware that Arramara was making an application to control more than 72% of the resource.