Mr. Colin Fulcher:

I think it is from the All-Ireland Research Observatory, AIRO, which does it on behalf of the regional assemblies. A change we are looking to implement in the national planning framework this time around is to review the use of the CSO settlement boundary as the geography to define compact growth because it is unsatisfactory to a certain extent. This is because at every census, the CSO redraws the settlement boundary to accommodate the growth of the settlement. It is an inexorably increasing boundary. It is not entirely useful for driving compact growth policy. If one looks at how the boundary is described in the footnote to the document, we are looking to use the Ordnance Survey Ireland-based mapping geography to try to create a more compact boundary around settlements and ask local authorities to use that for compact growth housing targets when they do city and county plans. Using the metric from the last national planning framework, it appears to be achieved but we know in reality that we need to make improvements to the geography we use for that.