Mr. Ken Spratt:

Okay. Two elements cause us to spend time, the first of which is the public spending code, which was recently revised. Could it be made more efficient? I am not sure to be perfectly honest. We will go through it, learn as we do and provide feedback to our colleagues in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on potential improvements that could be made. That is one possibility.

As the Deputy rightly pointed out, a reform of the planning process is under way. I know that the Attorney General himself wants to make it more efficient and is very focused on that. If we could save some time in the planning process, that would be fantastic. From what I have heard about the intention to tighten up the planning process and introduce efficiencies into it, I am somewhat hopeful that we could speed up some projects.

Those are the two key elements - the planning process, which causes delays, and the public spending code, which we are doing our best to implement as efficiently as we can. If we could make time efficiencies or savings in that regard, it would be welcome.