Mr. John Treacy:

What we are hearing from our members is that there is so much risk in business, particularly in recent years. It involves external, global and credit risks; trying to get financing; and HR risk. One thing we can control is the pace of clarifying what is going to be done in this local area. There are so many unknowns at the moment and we need to speed that up. We had a deadline of November for the dissolution which has now passed. Our members are asking the following questions. Could someone specify what is going to happen? What is our relationship going to be? What is that area? How will Dublin City Council, the new entity and the new councillors interact? The more quickly this is resolved, the more quickly we can get people to volunteer for this consultative forum and get some good people in there. We can control the speed.