Mr. John Hogan:

The Deputy might forgive me if I respond to his observations in no particular order. On the last one, the issue of compliance is a matter for the Revenue Commissioners. The Deputy is right that there are small variations in terms of compliance across different local authority areas but the overall compliance figure of 97% is a very effective rate across the board. Perhaps some of the reasons some local authorities seem to be lower rather than higher may be something that we would look at in the context of the group announced by the Minister today. On the variations, I have to hand a table which gives some detail-----