Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 July 2022
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:30 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
An awful lot of those kinds of services are done with what is called a spatial analysis. There is a map that shows where people are living, which comes out of the census, and it can then be overlaid on that where the services are delivered and whether the two things are matched up. Catchment areas can also be designed around individual facilities and see whether there a match. For example, in one facility there might be eight beds for a particular population and another facility serving a bigger population might have 16 beds. That partially answers the kind of-----
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