Mr. Barry O'Leary:

There will be a new regime after this which will still allow certain regional aid support to the current geographical footprint. In addition there is a small increase of a couple of percentage points which will allow some new areas to be brought into the regional aid guidelines. The current footprint will work until the end of June next year and it will be up to the Department and the Government to come up with the new map. There is scope for a small increase in the geographical areas.