Dr. Matt Yardley:

They had to put forward examples of their experience, as I said earlier, across a range of criteria, including building, operating, wholesale specific and other environmental and quality matters. They demonstrated that throughout the consortium. It is important to stress there is the National Broadband Ireland organisation and a lot of the build and operational expertise sits with its partners. There is information in the public domain on National Broadband Ireland's website and we can look at the senior management team and the expertise. I will read out the companies from where the expertise will come. They are Siemens, Enet, Airspeed, Level 3, Eircom, Magnet, Aurora, Rogers, which is a cable company in Canada, and Hibernia. The senior management team are all industry veterans, many of whom have worked in Ireland. That is a good starting point for building a new organisation.

We all accept it is important for that entity to engage with its partners and consortium members with very robust subcontracts that meet the requirements of the State. That is where we are at in the process.