MR PRIOR
Mr Chairman I know it's difficult and one doesn't want to stop the various legal teams presenting their cases in their best way, but we have a situation where we have ten applicants.  Each have made substantial applications setting out the facts of the applications.  We have spent the better part, if not the whole day, listening to the evidence in chief.
	I know in other hearings throughout the country in light of matters where the applicants have simply under oath confirmed what they've said in their applications, confirmed their statements and here and there embellished or enlarged, leaving the bulk of the work to the cross-examiner.  I plant it as a seed of thought that possibly on that basis we can get through ...(intervention)