Ms Justice Mary Ellen Ring:

Obviously that can be difficult to say, but in our business proposal, which we have also provided to the committee, we include at page 11 the work on hand as of December of last year. There were just over 1,000 cases on hand. Some of those will have continued, not only throughout 2017 but previously, but perhaps half of the cases that we get each year we can dispose of within the year. Part of the problem is the backlog that builds up in any given year because of resourcing issues.