Dr. Conor Norton:

Emergency provisions exist and should be used for immediate actions but it is not in any way sustainable to have to lean on emergency provisions. In the context of our larger proposals, there are things we probably need to do now, as well as short-term recommendations. Five years is considered short term for planning. We then need to look at the longer-term fixing of the system. Emergency provisions should be used to tackle the current crisis or emergency, but we cannot run a system on the basis of emergency responses.