[He sighs heavily, shrugging a little as he takes a long sip of his drink.]

Farther behind than we should be, at this point. We couldn't afford that, as it was, and now... we've had a lot of unnecessary extra work on hand, repairing the Inquisition's reputation. But I guess we can't do much about it, the decision has been made and we have to deal with it somehow.

[It's not something they could take back, and even if they did, it would look bad at this point.]