Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

I will not interfere with the professional assessment of people who are charged with making decisions on allocating resources. The fact that they have provision for 10,575 posts does not mean they have to allocate all of them. If they did so they would be applying different criteria. People who were refused SNA resources six months ago could find that SNAs were allocated in cases where the need was professionally assessed as being less pressing. That would be the essence of unfairness.

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