Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Great. Well done to him. I told Deputy Crowe that the reason was that the board is responsible for the allocation of resources within its region. That power has been conferred upon the board by legislation passed in this House. The board also has significant representation. Local authority representatives as across the region have a serious role to play in determining the policy within the board in conjunction with the management of that board. The board has decided that the best use of its resources is to take 20 of the 120 places that are available in Tallaght and Greenhills and allocate them to a region that in its opinion is badly served by VTOS places.

That is the board's remit. It has-----

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