Mr. John Mulholland:

I will come in on part of that at least. It is very difficult to compare timelines because the law, procurement and the engagement of expertise have changed. The delivery of water services infrastructure was never speedy. It was never a quick exercise. There are plenty of examples over the years, from Mutton Island, County Galway to Arklow, County Wicklow and various other schemes. Such schemes would have taken up to a decade and even longer in some cases, depending on the challenges. It concerns dealing with areas that are not within the control of those who are designing, planning or funding schemes. It is about the opportunities for people to participate in the planning process, more recently, under the Aarhus convention and the like, freedom of information, the planning appeals system and the European Court of Justice. A timeline of three to five years would be typical.