Mr. John McCarthy:

When one looks at the proportion of income that has come from rates over recent years, and judging from the figures that I have given there, even the absolute amounts have not changed massively at a national level. Yes, there would be differences locally and there would be differences in individual businesses arising from revaluations, but the overall contribution has not changed significantly. The focus in more recent times has been not so much on increasing the ARVs but on collecting and improving the collection performance in relation to rates that are levied.