Mr. Frank Curran:

I thank the Deputy. The four-stage approval process was reviewed recently and some good ideas came out of that, including the funding of a site survey and investigation prior to stage 1 so that all the investigative work and site surveys are completed and there are no minefields presented by unforeseen ground conditions or that type of thing. We could make stage 3, which relates to post-planning and post-tender, optional. That stage could be skipped if there is not a great variation in the planning process and the proposal has not changed from the original scheme or there is no major variance in the cost estimate. That would help.