Mr. Pat Montague:

Before Mr. Lambe comes in, to be fair, what has happened is that we hit a major buffer. Mr. Doran referred to it earlier, which is the issue of public procurement. That has massively increased the time involved, but that is only one of the problems. It has certainly added a huge amount of time on one end of the process. To be fair, the Housing Agency has come forward with some proposals to help on the first part.

The other part is that owners' management companies, given the profile we have talked about – they are volunteers – do not have the wherewithal to manage these huge construction projects. They do not have the professional skills, experience and insight to do that. To be fair, the Housing Agency has recognised that these companies need additional support to help them move these projects along. That is something we are now discussing. We will discuss it next Tuesday. As it stands, the analogy we use is that what we envisaged was something like a fast-moving dinghy that would just get in and out and move around very quickly, but we have ended up with an oil tanker that takes weeks to just change course. It is not working. It is not fit for purpose.