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

It is just the population about which I am talking. I am familiar with what happened at that time. In the needs and resources model what a local authority had at a point in time was counted and it was resourced. If it had six swimming pools, one received funding to ensure it could continue to have six swimming pools. If it did not have any swimming pool, it was not factored in as a need. That was the basis of the model. It was a snapshot in time, albeit across a range of metrics. If the population was static, it was prior to 2000, around the time the needs and resources model-----