Mr. John McCarthy:

I cannot go into too much detail because it is being finalised with the Minister, but he will be making an announcement on it shortly. As there will be a consultation process, there will be an opportunity for the involvement of and an input from the general public and others. To refer back to the Deputy's point about population, it is one factor that can be taken into account. However, there is population distribution and the length of roads. When one looks back at the needs and resources model when it was put in place originally, up to 600 pieces of data fed into it and it became incredibly complex. One of the objectives we will be trying to achieve in the distribution exercise is trying to make it as fair as possible and equally trying to keep it as simple as possible because the complexity associated with the needs and resources model became unmanageable.