Mr. Colm Hayes:

Absolutely. It is all about continuously improving the process. It goes back to the Secretary General's point. We are bringing in outsiders to externally review our process and procedures. We want people to come in and tell us if we are doing things wrong if we have over egged the pudding here. There are lessons learned all the time.

Touching on what the Deputy said when we were in front of the committee in May, we average approximately seven weeks, in or around 100 licences per week then. We were maybe only a week or two into that when we appeared in front of the committee last. The statutory instrument hit. Now we are back to north of 100 a week. We have to keep that going and we are confident that those figures are in front of us. This is all a process of continuous improvement. It is about bringing people in. It is about training them. It is about the skills and the qualifications. It all goes into the mix.

Nobody can stand over a licence that is with us for three years. You would really have to go back and review and question that. We do that all the time when such a case appears.