Mr. Chris McGarry:

The organisation is quite specific insofar as we have inspectors who make recommendations under law and we have commissioners who are duty bound to make decisions under law on foot of the written recommendation of the inspector. There are 14 commissioners at the moment and we do not make individual decisions. We have a quorum of three. The pattern has been surprisingly consistent over the years. About 10% to 14% might be overturns where we might disagree with the inspector. I believe from my own experience as a board member and as a commissioner for six years that none of this is of itself a time issue. What I mean by that is, if we have a meeting where we decide, for whatever reason, that we do not agree with the inspector on that occasion, we go ahead and make a decision and we use our skill and our knowledge to write that up. The notion of the overturn itself is not relevant, I think, to the notion of delay or other issues that might be important to this committee.