Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

On costs, one of the things for the RHAs is ensuring population-based funding allocations. Under the existing arrangement, how do the populations of CHO 1, CHO 8 and CHO 9 fare funding-wise for eye services compared with similar populations throughout the rest of the country? There is this perennial problem of postcode lotteries tying into funding. Is it a case that those three CHOs, compared with others throughout the country, have additional funding?