Mr. George Hussey:

If the Senator has a quick look at the appendix to our submission, she will see a table that comes from the Regional Development Monitor, RDM, and that almost every county in Ireland is exceeding the national target of 40%. Even those counties that are not exceeding it are certainly exceeding the 30% target for rural counties. We are beholden to the data that are available to us in this regard. The Central Statistics Office has done a very good job in making that settlement data available to the RDM and various others. Essentially, there are two issues. One is tightening the physical boundaries within which we count a new dwelling as being within the compact growth guidelines, or not as the case may be, in order that they all relate to physical spaces that make sense from an urban point of view. The second is really about the level of ambition and ratcheting it up so that we are not in a situation where 50% of urban dwellings and 70% of rural dwellings can still be outside of the settlement. There are two elements to it. I am sorry that does not directly answer the Senator's question but we do not have a specific definition as such.