Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)

I have no data to hand regarding geographic spread. Incidentally, however, some funding was announced last weekend regarding older people's facilities and I happened to perform a minor analysis on the allocation. When considered from the perspective of geographic spread, it was not carried out fairly. This pertains to independent assessment because if it was in my hands, or those of any other politician, a geographic spread would have been much more likely. If one looks at the analysis of what we announced at the weekend, which is on the website, there was one county, not a very large county, in which 17 different groups received funding. It was not in my constituency or in that of the Minister, Deputy Ó Cuív.

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