Mr. T.J. Malone:

The ask at the moment relates to the competing priorities local authorities have with regard to planning. When we go in, we are competing with these priorities in every local authority that is under time constraints. The Departments of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Environment, Climate and Communications are working together to legislate for a timeframe in this regard. We are all working together to get that done. I believe it will be done later in the year. The first thing is to ensure that a timeframe is in place for applications for section 254 licences to put up new poles. The Department issued a circular on 18 August. This went out to all local authorities and the planners within them and said that, while we are waiting on the legislation, applications for licences relating to the national broadband plan were to be given priority. We are starting to see that across the board. As we start to build and accelerate-----