Ms ?ine Cusack:

In terms of our projections for the medium and long term, the child benefit data tells us where the babies and toddlers are. Beyond that, we use information from the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, which has done work in terms of population in the context of Project Ireland 2040 population targets. The ESRI has broken that down by local authority area and by age. If the ESRI has a projection for County Mayo to the effect that in 2029 there will be X number of four-, five- or six-year-olds, distilling that down to local areas is transacted through local authorities. We work it through with the local authorities in the context of their county development plans. It is difficult to pin down exactly, but it does give us a reasonable estimation of trends generally.