Mr. Brian Casey:

I thank Senator Ardagh for her support and her questions. We have a defined mechanism. We have three criteria. The first is on how much money each of our seven member agencies has raised from the public over the past five years. Second, is how much money the member agencies spend on humanitarian programming, as opposed to development programming. The third is the number of countries each agency has a physical presence in. These are three very clearly-defined criteria based on audit accounts from the past five years. A lot of the questions we get are on whether there is contention or debate over this. In actual fact there is not, because it is very clear. We have a very clear model or criteria. Everybody agrees to it, there is no debate around it and it is quite straightforward.