Ms Julie Sinnamon:

On the Deputy's first question regarding the push-pull factor, the demand and the fact that some counties and regions are not feeling the benefit, for quite a while Dublin was experiencing the recovery much faster than areas outside of it. That is still the case but to a lesser extent. It was good to note in our results in 2014 that 66% of the jobs were outside Dublin and that every region and sector grew. That was a very different picture from the results for the previous year. In respect of the experience in terms of where our investments are going, there is an increasing amount and the food sector is a large part of client companies. There has been a significant amount of investment outside of Dublin in start-up projects. It is well spread regionally. I recognise that Dublin has been seeing a faster level of growth than the rest of the country but at least every region and every sector grew in 2014, which was encouraging.

I will ask Mr. Tom Hayes to respond to the question on how we are feeding into the development of the national spatial strategy.