Mr. Lar Bradshaw:

Yes. Just to explain the reality, it is a relatively short period of time from 3 October to whatever. I think the deadline for the bid or to put in the tender was 25 October. One has to start somewhere. One could ask after all this time, should we not have gone and got public procurement advice, but if we had started hiring lawyers to give us that advice and we were spending money, found it was okay and then went and found out that no one was interested in being a joint venture partner with us, we would have just spent more money with lawyers to find out something that was irrelevant. One has to sequence things somewhere and I think it is, frankly, quite logical that one might say, "Let's see if this is even going to be in the realms of the doable", before one would start going and getting legal advice. I hear the Deputy's question, but-----