Mr. Paul Hogan:

It is a package. It is hard to isolate any particular factor. What we are looking at is combined patterns, or a package of measures and information. We know that the essential ingredients for regional growth are scale, opportunity, diversity of employment, particularly third level institutions and the employment associated with that, which is why I cited Galway. This applies to the other cities too. If graduates from Athlone, Galway, Limerick or wherever can be retained in the city and the immediate region, that tends to drive employment because there is a pool of skill, graduates and talented people who can be employed, which is important but, in turn, requires housing development and investment in infrastructural support. There is no one magic bullet or one precise metric. It all has to work together.