Mr. Mark Griffin:

First of all, the report in The Irish Timesis wrong. The number of premises passed by Eir is about 211,000. It has connected over 40,000, which is close to 20%. If one looks at any international comparator, and Eir's own projections on what it is it would have expected to achieve within that relatively short period of time, it would have been very happy with that level of take up. There is a lag between houses being passed, services being provided by the retail services, time to connect and all of that. In fact, when we saw those figures from Eir, and I do not think Eir will have any difficulty with us quoting them because I think they came out with a statement themselves around that time, we would be quite encouraged by the level of take up at this stage.