Ms Joan Martin:

Not Newry, albeit our biggest concern about the discussion documents that came out in the national planning framework was probably the huge concentration on a number of cities which are either in the west or the south. We are talking about Galway down to Cork. We are not anywhere close to any of those. Our concern was that our peripherality was increasing greatly if that was the trend carrying through to the draft plan. The main thrust of our submission was that if Dublin is under pressure, towns such as Dundalk, Drogheda and, up the corridor, Newry are well placed with good infrastructure to provide sustainable development centres or nodes which can support Dublin. It is very much about the Dublin-Belfast corridor and the ability of towns such as Drogheda, Dundalk and so on to help sustain Dublin into the future.