Mr. Ciar?n Breen:

Yes, unfortunately. If we take the period the Comptroller and Auditor General looked at, and we have looked at ourselves, we had Covid in that time and there is no doubt that added somewhat to it. The Chair is right that the timeframe, no matter what way one looks at it, looks to be overly lengthy. That is one of the things I was saying earlier to the committee, namely, that if we have the pre-action protocol, we will, hopefully, be able to bring down those times significantly.