Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Not particularly. It flows from the earlier point that we now go on the actual strength as opposed to the establishment figure. The finances were based for a long time on the establishment figure. It is like teaching where one gets the demographic dividend automatically. That used be the row with DPER when I was in the Department of education. If pupil numbers went up, one automatically got the resource of teachers. Here, one automatically got the establishment figure funding even though one was 1,000 off it and maybe, in some cases, 1,500 off it.