Mr. Peadar Ó Scanaill:

There has been a very large change, but the council is a body in perpetuity set up under the Act. There are changes at all times. It is a clever enough Act in the way it was set up in terms of the way people move in and out in different periods. At a two-year point, five come up for election. Two years later four come up for election, giving nine elected members. The appointed members sit on the council for four years. Some stay for four years, some for a shorter period and some for a second term of four years. As it happened - it was only a coincidence of time - there were only four or five members - I am not absolutely sure which - remaining at the end of 2017 and into 2018. In fairness, it is a body in perpetuity. A decision of the council in 2005 is a decision of the council in 2005. Decisions are not made because the council has now changed and we are all different. The change is made to have different thought processes and different inputs. As the registrar said, it is unfair to say it has to do with the fact that there has been huge change.