Ms Geraldine Tallon:

Certainly, hindsight is 20/20 vision but I deeply regret the way this turned out. I would dearly have liked this to work in the way that it should have worked and was intended to work. I have to acknowledge that the developer fulfilled all of the conditions and that there is not any issue of culpability on his part. Indeed, the court recognised that and I do not question the court judgment and will not comment on it one way or the other. With hindsight I can say that we would have needed and should have had better co-ordination. We had quite a lot of co-ordination but we also had a lot of moving parts. Ultimately, in such a situation, one needs a single authority calling the shots and determining how the process will go.