Mr. Phelim Devine:

The contract mechanism is such that the contractor must notify of a claim within 20 working days of recognising that he feels that there is a justification. Within that 20 days they must submit substantiation for that claim. The first 20 days is notification. Within 20 days they must issue substantiation. The employer's representative has the opportunity to seek further information. The ER then has another ten days to receive that and ten days to determine. The whole cycle comes to around 40 days and then the determination is made.