Dr. Dónal Palcic:

We do not have telecoms engineering backgrounds but we have extensive experience of looking at the impact of privatisation on telecoms industries across Europe, including regulatory impacts. We have published different peer-reviewed papers and, as Professor Reeves mentioned, a book on privatisation in Ireland. That largely related to Eircom and the telecoms sector in Ireland. From that point of view, with regard to policy and ownership-level regulation, I would say that we have a good bit of experience.