Dr. Cecil Beamish:

There is absolutely no resistance to the report. The Minister commissioned the report and the Minister and Department are one and the same. He commissioned the report for a purpose. A central recommendation of the report is that the backlog should be cleared by the end of 2019. That involves a threefold step-up of the rate of determinations on licence applications each year, in 2018 and 2019. That has never been achieved under this system. It is the central short-term recommendation to be done. We are accepting the timeline and making every effort to try to step up to that timeline. There is no question of not accepting the report but even if one reads the structure of the report, it talks about what can be done in the short term and what can be done in the longer term.