Mr. T.J. Malone:

We explored using roughly 100,000 poles when we started the project. That number has probably come down as we have developed the low-level designs. The key thing for us was predictability and being able to go into Kerry County Council, for example, and have the same surety that we were going to get our poles granted as we would with any other council, such as in Galway, Kildare etc. The process of setting out what "good" looks like and putting in place a set of guidelines was something we worked on with the local authorities to get. We took that approach because we could not be waiting or receiving rejections all the time, because we would not have been able to predict when we would have been able to do the work. It is different in Northern Ireland, where it is possible to just erect a notice to say that a pole is being erected.