Mr. John McKeon:

We are very conscious of that. One of my concerns and the reason I asked the appeals office to look at it and I looked at it myself, a number of legal firms have started to see this is a bit of a gravy train and are trying to turn it into an adversarial process. When I went back and read the legislation setting up the appeals office it was very clear that what the Oireachtas wanted was a relatively informal, administrative process, not one which is high bound. However, increasingly that is what we are seeing and that is not where we want to be. We want it to be the case that something will come in, get an appeal by an experienced officer considered very quickly and get the decision. There is always the option to go to the Circuit Court or whatever if they want to have legal advisers but we do not want to turn it into a courtroom situation.