Mr. Doncha O'Sullivan:

I wish the work had begun. As the Secretary General said, it was part of an overall suite of measures, including perhaps other EU measures which had more pressing timelines even at that point. The other complication in this instance was that the State fell foul of a change in European Commission practice in regard to the enforcement penalties beginning in January 2017. Previously, where a member state had remedied the infringement by the time the case came to court, the Commission would not seek a fine. The Commission changed its practice so that by the time this came to court - and this is not an excuse obviously but the context-----