I’d have fobbed you off, of course.
Then I’d have called in my advisers and asked: What’s in it for me if I give Dick what he wants, and what are the risks to me if it don’t?
The answers would determine the meaning of the word “promptly”.
If the answers were that there’s nothing in it for me and no risk to me, “promptly” means a long time.
The bit that you never get is that government is not about the objective merits of an issue.
That’s why, for example, there’s an RFFS but no Tower at Ballina...