Mr. Kevin O'Brien:

The licence conditions, referred to earlier, have always been exceeded. Those conditions are based on population rather than geographical coverage. If one includes mountainous areas and lakes, big chunks of the country do not have houses in them. It is a population measure.

The Deputy asked how we measure operator performance. We do drive tests, which is done within a mobile network metric. A mobile vehicle does the testing, so the experience would be the same as a person moving around the country. We recognise it is a mobile network when testing. I mentioned that we are increasing the amount of testing being done. Previously, we tested for all national primary routes but we are now extending that testing to all national routes. That is any road in Ireland which is a national primary or secondary route. That equates to 5,500 km of test route. Considering this per operator and per network, we do more than 1 million per annum on any one network.