Fair suck of the sauce bottle guys.
"We have an action item to develop a plan to forward to the minister about when we plan to have them to the minister, and I assume that plan would be done in the next couple of months."
A little circumlocutory/prolix maybe but given the environment understandable;
decode = we'll have a timetable in a cuppla months.
I think they got the message.
In any event why should we be surprised that is taking a little while to get the
whole trainset back on the rails.
Refocus from quantity to quality AND where the emphasis for the application of resources needs to be applied
takes time to do properly.
A rational continuation of the revised reform process can't take place until the management and people issues are resolved and there has been a fair bit of that lately.
Early 2006 in my understanding was always the new aiming point.
I would substitute a Walrus for the Camel
which would then explain why the people involved in the process got bored to death along the way.