Mr. Dalton Tattan:

To add to what the Secretary General has said and to give an indication the difficulty the Department faced in estimating it, in July 2005 we had just over 7,000 applications for redress and the redress board had been in operation for several years at the point. We might have expected that we were coming towards the end of that. The closing date was 16 December 2005. By the closing date, the number had increased to 14,768. It had doubled, therefore, in a five-month period.