Mr. Colm Hayes:

I touched on this earlier. This is one subset of our overall licensing output. We are clear that it has not met our targets and it has certainly not met the targets of the stakeholders. It is our first priority to redouble the efforts for 2021.

I will point out that this is not the only source of licences for the private sector. In fact, over the same period the sector got more licenses that never went near ecology than those that went on to ecology. The figure the committee members are seeing is only half of what the private sector gets. Clearly, with this particular cohort of private licences with ecology input, the project planner is not where we want it to be and it absolutely has to be a focus of priority for 2021.