Mr. Murty Hanly:

I will speak briefly on forward planning and the point the Deputy made about looking at existing demographics rather than looking forward to future pressures. The approach we take is to look at the whole country and break it down into school planning areas. We then look at future demand in those areas but we also take into consideration the demographic trends that are coming through the system, for example, a fall-off in requirements at primary school level coming through to post-primary school. However, we look at it all in the round. We do not just plan for future residential development. We are very much conscious of the requirements of existing residential developments, particularly with regard to objectives under the national planning framework relating to compact growth, which should lead to more development in brownfield areas. We are conscious of that and take it into consideration in our planning.