Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

From speaking to members of local authorities, some of the issue here concerns the nature of Ireland and the pool of potential staff. Having spoken to people in my region, they would say their local authority got additional staff, but they came from the local authority next door. In turn, that same local authority which got the extra staff might also have lost staff to its neighbouring local authority. Therefore, I understand that this endeavour will take time. What I am saying, in the context of an initial exploration of the practical outworking of this significant State investment, is that it does not seem to be equally distributed across the State. This is something that may require intervention in future