Mr. Paul Reid:

The process is administered by the secretariat, headed by Mr. Cathal O'Regan. In essence, it is what is called a stratified, random selection process. Some 20,000 letters issued out to the public. Of those, we got fewer than 2,000 responses back. From those, we basically used the CSO data and identified the population mix that reflected the CSO data. It will reflect geography, regional distribution and, as best it can, socioeconomic background, nationality and disability. We had a really good mix, with 12 nationalities represented in the assembly.