James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)

The single stage is where we bring the four-stage process to an end, which did add a certain level of complication. It was probably used as an excuse by some people as well. Nonetheless, I am great believer in simplifying things as much as possible. The commitment is to have that process effectively activated in October or November. We are running through that transition right now, but I expect to have that up and running by the end of November at the latest. That is my expectation at the moment. However, the aim is to do it even more quickly than that because it is critical for those local authorities that are driving on and want to do even more, more quickly, and also those local authorities that have not been very strong on delivering housing, whether that is a result of fear or of unnecessarily relying on the section 4 process. Either way, we should move to that as quickly as possible. That is in everyone's interest.