Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

We have improved because we are issuing licences now at an exceeding rate. For the seven weeks before the statutory instrument came into place we were issuing licences at a rate of just under 100 per week. We predicted a sharp drop-off, which was more prolonged than we expected, and over the past two weeks we are back up over 100 per week. We have improved.

Deputy Fitzmaurice's anecdote about that individual is unacceptable. Nobody is denying that but these matters are not simple to fix. There are issues about the legal framework we work in. There are issues about resources. There are issues about the numbers of ecologists that are available out there. This work we are doing in Project Woodland to reassess the legal process and to reassess our own processes will be important. I hope-----