In making our proposals we have, since the publication of the Greater Dublin Tribunal's Report, constantly borne that Report in mind.

So soon as it was possible, we discussed our proposals with Mr. T. C. Courtney, one of the Members of that Tribunal, and received his assurance that our proposals did not in any way conflict in principle with the Tribunal findings. We have naturally not entered at all into the complex question of future administration which has been so ably and exhaustively dealt with in that Report and which can be applied equally well to our Scheme.

Briefly, our green belt and the area of County Dublin to the North of that correspond to the North and South Dublin Rural areas of the Tribunal, while our central urban area (with free entry and deferred development land) corresponds with the Tribunal's Metropolitan Area as distinct from the Rural Areas.

The findings of the Tribunal would thus apply as well to our proposals as to those put forward by the Tribunal, the only difference being in the areas shown on the two maps. We have also had the benefit of showing our Report and Maps to the other two members of the Tribunal, Mr. Justice Gavan Duffy and Mr. R. J. Baker. They appeared to concur in the view that the Tribunal findings could be applied in principle as well to our map as to theirs, which was based, so they told us, on less detailed information and data than we had at our disposal.

We are satisfied that the present boundary is utterly inadequate and consider therefore, that the future boundary and, in fact, the whole question of administration, is one which should be considered in the light of the findings of the Tribunal and of our Report jointly.