Dr. Cathal Morgan:

There were 64 overdue assessments in CHO 2, which is the Galway, Mayo and Roscommon area; 186 in CHO 3, which is Clare, Limerick and Tipperary area; 1,718 in CHO 4, which is Kerry, north Cork, north Lee, south Lee and west Cork, of which only 35 were in Kerry - I emphasise the geographical distribution of those numbers - 406 in CHO 5, which is Carlow, Kilkenny, Tipperary south, Waterford and Wexford; 50 in CHO 6, Deputy Donnelly's constituency area, covering Dublin south east, Dublin south and Wicklow; 547 in CHO 7, which is Dublin south city, Dublin south west, Dublin west, Kildare and Wicklow west; 403 in CHO 8, which is Laois, Offaly, Longford, Westmeath, Louth and Meath; and 484 in CHO 9, which is Dublin north, Dublin north central and Deputy north west. There were a total of 4,061 overdue applications under the statutory assessment of need at the end of April.