Ms Mary O'Kelly:

One thing we would like to be able to look at it, which we have discussed in the CHO, is growing our own. We are a population of more than 700,000 and a large part of the area is socially deprived. Families are striving hard with children in secondary education. The first academic primary care centre in the country is in the Russell Centre, Tallaght, which Deputy Ward visited recently. Trinity College Dublin is its academic partner. One of the pieces we would like to look at is being able to grow our own within our population. There is an anchor of people who live in the area. We had that discussion. There are people who live in the area and who are passionate about working in their local communities. That is definitely something to consider from a national point of view. Deputy Ward will be sick of hearing me say this but we must consider being able to assist people with accommodation and a weighting in addition to basic pay. We need to recognise that we are comparable to international cities in expenditure. London and other European cities have a weighting on top of basic pay for people who live in areas where rent and mortgage repayments are higher.