Dr. Dónal Palcic:

It will be connecting to its own national network. NBP Core, NBI will be overlaying its fibre in that 300,000 premises area. I think Deputy Dooley asked earlier whether we would have any state aid concerns around that in that it is meant to be passing through the exclusion zone to get to the intervention area and whether there would there be any concerns that it could then try to connect premises within the exclusion zone. Obviously that is technically not allowed in the exclusion zone but the fact the Department had assumed that it would rent Eir's fibre - it signed a commitment deal with Eir to roll out fibre in the 300,000 homes-premises area. I think the Department's budget model then assumed that the winning bidder would effectively rent the fibre used, Eir's wholesale active product, but now it is not. There is a much higher cost to what it is doing.