Ms Alma Walsh:

I thank the Senator for his question. The population figures set out for Waterford at 2022 are 60,000. I am referring to table 4.1 in the revised NPF. As regards additional people in the target population, growing to 88,000, there is an additional 28,000 between now and 2040. The MASPs are established and determined based on a very specific methodology that accounts for a percentage of the commuting population working and living within the city and suburbs area. It is a methodology that is applied consistently across the cities for the Dublin MASP area, the Cork area strategic plan, Limerick, Galway and Waterford. The boundary for that particular MASP area follows that methodology, and that is the resultant one. We can certainly-----