I note there will be a study on the issue of local authority funding but I think there have been too many. There needs to be coherence in these studies. In County Kildare, there is a rapidly growing population and infrastructural difficulties. I accept there are counties in the west where the population is in decline and certain infrastructural problems have to be addressed regardless. However, the rapidly growing counties around Dublin have been penalised by the very fact that they cannot raise the revenue.