Ms Oonagh Buckley:

At this point in the cycle we are meeting the standard operating procedure, SOP, timeline on normal planning appeals, which is the one we really check because that is where the bulk of figures are, in a little over 30% of cases. We are determining those cases. However, determining includes decisions, those deemed to be invalid and those withdrawn. In fact, in terms of deciding cases, because of the delays and backlogs in the board, the numbers decided within SOP are very small, only a handful at the moment.