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

One of the difficulties is that things are not coterminous. For example, there may well be a fair distribution based on the population of CHO 8, but it may not be the case that that distribution is fair when it comes to looking at it from the point of view of the allocation for individual counties. It is a postcode lottery with a lot of HSE services. For example, CHO 7 is the area I am in. There is part of west Dublin, there is Kildare and there is west Wicklow. I may well be able to get the figure for that breakdown but I might not be able to get the figure as to what is spent in west Wicklow. The fact is that Wicklow is broken into more than one CHO area, as indeed is west Dublin, which indicates that Dublin is broken down into several CHO areas. It is quite difficult to see if there is a fair spread. You highlight one which is a glaring omission, a Chathaoirligh.