Ms Fiona Quinn:

This framework in terms of the model for LPT distribution will be in place until after the next census. The group recommended it be reviewed. Again, it comes back to decisions being made. This group, which was made up of local councillors and staff from the local government sector, was accepted in full by the Minister who sought the allocation model. It considered the whole range. The Deputy is right that when it looked at population and compared increases in population to the actual fixed population figure reported in the census, the allocation was not impacted by using one or the other, it was the same impact. There was a correlation between population figures and the change of population. On the Deputy's question around whether it is fixed, it will be now reviewed every time there is a census.