Mr. Owen Keegan:

I cannot account for that but we must be clear on this matter. The process is not like a standard planning application, which has to be accompanied by a fee or a declaration of a PPS number. I have to accept what I receive in good faith. Given that we acknowledge submissions, if 40% of them were dubious I would have expected more people to have responded that they never made an observation. In good faith, all we can do is acknowledge them and see if we get feedback. When we get feedback, which we did in 11 cases, we withdraw the observations from the file.