Mr. Paschal Hayes:

The interim control plan, as we said earlier, has been extended until 31 December. While that gives us a window to enter discussions with the Commission, we do not want to get right up to the end of that window and, perhaps, be stuck with no control plan in place again for a period. We want to move straight from one into another. I am only guessing now, but we hope to have the control plan in place in the third or fourth quarter of this year, but not right up against 31 December, which is essentially what happened last year. The plan was agreed right at the death of the year and came into being on 1 January. It presented the SFPA with the enormous problem of permitting those factories Deputy Mac Lochlainn talked about and a whole pile of work to do.

As for the contents of the plan, I would prefer to wait until we are at a more advanced stage with the Commission, to be fair to it. I do not think it would be-----