Ms Loretta Joyce:

As regards putting this in place quickly, we have already got the licence application form ready and the licence ready, we have consulted on that so once the legislation is in place, we are ready to go from that side of things. The Deputy asked what we have done in terms of emergencies. At present, the current licensed LPG suppliers, Calor and Flogas, have committed to providing an emergency response at this time to all of those networks and that has been the case since we found out about these. We will be putting it on a statutory footing that we will have the power to put in place emergency response arrangements that will make it an obligation on the LPG supplier to provide that emergency response. The reason for that is that these operators would not have the ability to do that as they are very small providers. Sometimes it is only one person and it would need a 24-hour on-call service, the likes of which Calor and Flogas already provide. Other suppliers, such as Tervas and North West, will also have to provide that because they supply these networks.