Dr. Cecil Beamish:

The timeframe being talked about is being taken from the court case when everything ground to a complete halt, which was a completely abnormal situation, to the point where the infrastructure was built that could now deal with the licences. We are not going to be in that position again, in so far as one can see into the future. I refer to the issue of the delay and the issue of the bureaucracy and whether the Scottish system is less bureaucratic than the Irish one. As I said, the review group looked at that, and it is in the report. It looked at the five to seven licences one needs under the Scottish system and came to the view that there were advantages to the Irish system where only two licences were required.