Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 March 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government
9:00 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I will stop Mr. McCarthy there. Areas that are growing in population are worse off. Such an area might not be worse off at a point in time, but it will be worse off as its population grows if its baseline was poor to begin with. An area with an inadequacy of services and an inadequacy of staff was always going to be disadvantaged by virtue of this particular scenario.