Mr. Aidan Sweeney:

Our issue with this is trying to identify one country that does everything well. There are challenges, depending on the issues. Their licensing, permitting and starting procedures appear to be dramatically different, for instance. They use the environmental impact assessment first and then they determine the process afterwards, which speeds up getting things going.

On the procurement side and the different measures, there are benchmarks for each of these different categories and we just need to pull them all together. One of the key things we will be emphasising to the accelerating infrastructure task force is to look at the different aspects of it, not focus just on the planning system and look right across project delivery.