Professor Eoin Reeves:

This is the big question that needs to be answered. The big issue for all of us is to try to understand why the subsidy goes from €787 million to that figure, plus another €1 billion. It appears, and Analysys Mason mentioned this last week when it appeared before of the committee and the penny dropped with a lot of us, that this is what is going on. One of the reasons that the cost is going up is that Granahan McCourt has decided to overlay its own cable on the Eir network within the 300,000 premises exclusion area. This goes back to the Deputy's original question. That is what Granahan McCourt is actually doing.