The police resumed issuing permits this week.
MMS is awkwardly tasked both with issuing permits for the industry and with regulating it.
As it is, she said, she can barely keep up with issuing permits.
He said that the department was still issuing permits for curbside buses under "the old rules".
"They are the only ones responsible for issuing permits to press outlets.
The decision will allow the Department of Public Safety to begin issuing permits this month.
It would mean more flexibility in staging the work, issuing permits and moving equipment, he said.
The measures include issuing permits for private hospitals and schools and allowing private-sector management of the rice industry.
"Eventually, a district will either have to stop issuing permits or reduce pumping to accommodate new permits," he said.
"Some issuing authorities," he concluded, as gun blasts outside made it hard to hear, "just don't like issuing permits".
The department, he says, must simply stop issuing permits until there are ways to slow the killing.
