Mr. Peter Walsh:

Historically, we have seen a project, from the date of submission through to a decision, being achieved in or around a six-month period. An Bord Pleanála has an aspiration to provide a decision within 18 weeks of the closing date of receipt of observations. It was not far off that for a long number of years but it then started to drift very considerably and could go to years. We believe there is now an improvement on that. We are just observing other oral hearings for other projects and not ours, but the process appears to be speeding up. I am hoping that we see decisions much more quickly.