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

I trust the board and its management which has significant experience in this regard. It has not just been doing this work of allocating scarce VTOS places since last October but for many years. We conferred on all education and training boards, ETBs, autonomy to make these decisions in the best interests of the people they served.

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