Mr. T.J. Malone:

I totally understand how that could be perceived and the frustrations it would bring. If you bring it back to how we have 554,000 premises to cover in 26 counties, we have now commenced construction in all 26 counties. As Deputy Carroll MacNeill said, we have broken it into 227 different deployment areas or local exchanges and each of those is done on how far light can go down the fibre-optic cable, that is the limit as to how far we can drive it, in that particular area. We have build them around that design and demographic. There always will be an end to one deployment area and a start to another. The ideal for anybody, from a commercial point of view to go in and build a county, would be to go in and stay in that county, just complete that county as fast as possible and move on to the next one. From that perspective there would not be the long wait but to be fair to the people of Ireland, we have to bring in the 26 counties at the same time. In order to do this and to use the resource we have to spread it across the country. I acknowledge it is frustrating for a person on one road to be available for connection now while it might be a year or two before the next one is. We will come contiguously as soon as we possibly can. It has to spread to 26 counties as otherwise some of the counties will be-----