Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

To address that question, we wrote to the committee on 20 July stating there would be a delay through July and up to the middle of August. That was based on our assessment of the impact of this on our administrative system. When we tackled this it was more complicated than we thought it would be. For example, we had to go through every application manually that was lodged before 11 January and we had to redact personal information from every single application. That is something we were not set up to do. The period extended to eight weeks beyond where we thought it would extend to and it was because the process of establishing a new system to deliver this public consultation was more difficult than we initially thought.