Ms Carolan Lennon:

VAT is included. That bid or technical submission was trying to be compliant with the procurement model with which the Department wants us to be compliant. If the Senator gave me €1 billion to build fibre to the home in rural Ireland tomorrow, I would do it but on the criteria with which I built the 300,000. Those are not the same criteria that the Department wanted for the procurement process. The SLAs are not as good.