Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I have been critical for donkey's years about a historical model being used to calculate these issues. For example, there were wide variations with regard to staffing ratios of local authorities, and that is factored into their baseline. A local authority in Meath has half the staff of Kerry but it has more people living in the county. Kerry is a net contributor, as it happens, so I am not being unfair to the authority. When do local authorities in growing areas ever play catch-up in an equalisation fund?