Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I will stop Mr. McCarthy there. Areas that are growing in population are worse off. Such an area might not be worse off at a point in time, but it will be worse off as its population grows if its baseline was poor to begin with. An area with an inadequacy of services and an inadequacy of staff was always going to be disadvantaged by virtue of this particular scenario.