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

I have given the Deputy the logical reasons for the ETB's decision and do not see how we can contradict it. Removing 20 of 120 places and allocating them to an area with population that, in the ETB's opinion, is rapidly increasing is a reasonable decision. I stand over it on the basis of the expertise and wisdom to be found in the ETB which render it well able to make such decisions.

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