Mr. Peter Hendrick:

From the Department's perspective, there are a number of working groups and one of those is the technical and build working group. Our teams meet regularly with the Department's teams to assess where we are in terms of all of the key enablers to build the network, whether that is local authorities on licensing, the Eir make-ready capacity increasing the number of poles and the number of kilometres of duct, the supply of materials that are involved in the procurement and certainty around supply of materials, and the approval of subcontractors into our framework. The Department is very much involved in all aspects of the programme.