Mr. Daniel McLoughlin:

There is a bunch of related challenges now around tender hesitancy, which we believe will pass. The other to relate to that is in terms of price inflation and the capacity of the construction sector which has taken a bit of a step back. In terms of tender hesitancy, I mentioned the two stage process to Deputy Ó Broin. You have stage one where people who come through and are nominated to stage two. People fall off. That is one piece of hesitancy. The second piece is where people go forward for the final tender, and they are finding it difficult to get their main subcontractors to price stuff. That slows down the tenders so you are getting one, two, or perhaps three requests to extend the tender period. The third issue is having gotten the tender and you ask them to confirm their price, sometimes they are taking a step back and saying they need to check something. That could take a month or two longer than normal. That is a package of issues with us for the here and now and we have to work through those. They are what they are. We will work through them, and I think we will get there.

Beyond that, the issues will tend to be around the planning and judicial review scenarios in terms of that level of uncertainty. I mentioned earlier the issue around the need to get a particular consultant in a particular discipline at a point in time. They are the two things I would identify in terms of ramped-up capacity in the environmental sciences, ecology, bat surveys and winter bird surveys. This whole area is so dynamic and so difficult in terms of the current litigious environment we operate in. That is the best answer I can give you the Deputy in terms of an honest assessment of the here and now and the likely challenges.