Mr. Pat Watt:

I can give the Deputy a sense as to where those discussions are at. This is very much a work in progress. We have not had the July meeting yet so we have not been able to take the lid off this yet. Our going-in position was that the support would be balanced across the network. We currently have a pyramid model. In other words, more of the bottom of the network gets support relative to the top of it. That reflects the fact that, for example, a larger post office has the local community business and footfall it needs to sustain itself and in a declining transaction scenario, it can take action such as reduce staff or hours within its business model. Smaller post offices, particularly one- or two-person operations, would not have the same scope. Our going-in position is it would be more of pyramid approach to the disbursement but we have not started those discussions yet. We will start those in July. We want to make sure there is equity in the distribution of that funding.