Mr. Mark Griffin:

It probably goes back to the point we made earlier that our intervention was acknowledged as well in the Eir letter. There is a societal and policy issue that we need to deal with. If one sets a connection cost at €100, one is far more likely to attract people to connect to the system.

A family living in the intervention area in rural Ireland with four or five children can be got onto high-speed broadband much earlier. They benefit from the education-----