Mr. Doncha O'Sullivan:

It is probably not the most elegantly worded sentence I have come up with. The gist of what we are trying to say is that there was an increase in applications, mainly beginning last spring. It is initially felt in the first stage of the process. It is only really in the past few months that those cases have begun to be dealt with at first stage and are now starting to materialise in the second stage of the process, that is, the appeals stage. Does that make sense?