Ms Alma Walsh:

Like I said, it is a snapshot so we have to consider that in the round because initially the MASP boundaries were primarily informed by that particular methodology around the functional urban area and then consideration around density of the existing settlement of other towns and villages within the catchment of the cities. Importantly for the NPF and where it gives real effect to the metropolitan area strategic plan, MASP, and what is has provided for is to plan for the five cities through the regional spatial and economic strategies and that is one area the regional assemblies have included in their adopted regional spatial and economic strategies, RSESs. The role of the NPF is not necessarily to now amend those boundaries on the basis of that information because the function for that lies with the regional assemblies.