Mr. Eamon Stack:

I will refer to the working group. I did not have to make its members work hard. Rather, they wanted to. The group comprised experts from various fields. Reference has been made to STen scores, surveys and so on. We went around the houses in that regard. We kept reminding ourselves that we were not claiming that this was the best or perfect model, but we do claim that it is a better and more equitable model than what we have now. It is not perfect and there are t's to cross and i's to dot in its implementation and operation. Usefully, many of those t's and i's have been raised by this committee.

Our model is a starting point. International research showed that there nowhere was there a perfect model that we could import and apply. We had to start from scratch and develop it as best we could.