Mr. Mark Griffin:

There was, but its significance does not appear to have been understood. My own assessment is that the focus was on delivering a project that in broad terms would have achieved the objectives the original project was designed to achieve.

The perspective I have just given is backed up by a number of e-mails on file between DETI, the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and Bytel saying that we can save this project and can involve Eircom in the delivery of the system. That seems to have been the focus of attention - how could we substitute a very significant component of the original project that is no longer capable of being delivered with an alternative that could broadly do the same thing?