Mr. Fergal Mulligan:

The cost to the customer under Eir's proposal is completely dependent on the cost of connecting. It is connecting people within 50 m for €170 in the 300,000 area. There may be some premises beyond 50 m but we do not believe there are many because that is what the commitment agreement requires. Eir was very specific in the negotiations with us that it would not go beyond 50 m. Where I come from there are two or three houses on the road, with farmhouses a few hundred metres behind them. Eir will do the two or three houses on the road but will not do the farms, even if all the properties made an order. The houses at the back cannot make an order on the Eir in terms of the 300,000 premises. NBI has to come back and hoover that up later on if those houses make a connection.