Ms Kate Duggan:

With regard to our resource allocation as part of the transformation programme, through our work over the past year we now know that, across the 30 networks and based on indices related to the population, the child population, deprivation and expected growth in terms of community development plans, in addition to many other indicators, we will have for the first time a geospatial mapping exercise by network that will help us to identify needs within each network. This is information we will be able to give the Department through the Estimates process in terms of identifying where there is need. Need has two aspects: how we are using our current resources and how we use these better. Addressing this will require political support. Where there is concern about the evidence base of the programme or the work of an agency that is given money, it is a matter of reconfiguring some of the resources together to better meet the needs of the population if necessary.