Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

On the six months, the current median processing time is 14 months. Is there something big happening in the Department? Is there a new building under construction that will cater for all the staff that will be in a position to change the median time?

This is the median time, so we have to assume a number of applications are taking much longer than 14 months. We should bring the maximum time down to six months.