Mr. John McCarthy:

Under the capital works management framework, there are nine stages technically which apply to capital projects and these have been sweated down to four. The four stages are: an initial capital appraisal to set out some fairly basic information and establish if it makes sense; the design stage; the tender stage, and the tender approval. We have done a lot of work on this with local authorities over the recent past and put a targeted arrangement in place whereby a timeline is set for each stage of a project as to what the local authority and the Department have to do, respectively, to satisfy the requirements of the capital works management framework.