I'm not sitting in the minister's office, so I can't claim to speak for them.
The sense we have, as outside observers, is that what happened with Saudi Arabia several years ago was one factor, in terms of increasing an added element of caution into the system, and caution means a bit of a slower move on getting permits turned around. That's then overlaid, of course, with the ATT and the uncertainty about how that is applied as well.
It's probably those two factors that were contributing to it would be my reading of the situation.