Mr. David Silke:

I appreciate the Deputy's interest. We felt that County Louth would not meet both of the criteria at this time. While it may have had issues in regard to rent inflation, it was very unlikely to be above the national average rent of €973 as it was at that time. We recognise it as an issue and it is something we will be looking at. We are monitoring all of the areas, both the areas that have been designated to see what impact that designation has had and those areas that have not been designated to see what impact not being designated has had as well. When the next rent index is published, we will be looking at those areas to see whether there has been a continuation-----