Dr. Dónal Palcic:

As I understand it, the point being made by Deputy Dooley is that in the rundown to the end of the contract the incentive of the operator to reinvest in the network, knowing it is going to walk away, will be fairly minimal. The operator will not be trying to increase the residual value so that the State can then take a big chunk of that back. I would have thought that the operator would be trying to sweat the asset as much as possible towards the end of the contract.