Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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I know that it is regulated. That is fine. That is €200 in ten years and €500 over the 25 years, index-linked. I represent a rural area with some urban areas. In my travels around the countryside, I saw that an awful lot of poles were either broken or had fallen over and in a lot of cases the bushes were holding the cables up. It would be fair to say they were not in good shape. A lot of poles had to be replaced. Mr. Hendrick outlined the programme of what will be done per year. When NBI went in to do that, did it pay for the upfront costs of replacing the poles?