Ms Louise McGirr:

The way PBRA works is that it looks at the population size and age, which are the two key biggest factors that determine the size of budget that you would get if it was fairly distributed throughout the country. We overlay social deprivation and rurality onto those things. It is not about a service area. Nowhere is excluded. It is about the needs of the region based on its population. That is the model we are developing. I was saying to the Minister that we should look back to come back to this committee to talk about it as it progresses during the year. It is well advanced.