Dr. Matt Yardley:

No, but National Broadband Ireland is a new organisation being staffed with people who have vast experience of the Irish telecommunications market. We accept this is not a large well-established company that has been operating in telecommunications for 20 years in Ireland but what it has put forward through the entire process at pre-qualification questionnaire stage and final tender stage against the criteria, which is the only reference point we have through public procurement, has met those requirements.