Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Let me finish. If the Deputy wants the answer to the question, he may need to listen because it is not based on population. In order to qualify for the rural social scheme, an applicant must be in receipt of farm assist or fish assist. We took the number of people who are on farm assist or fish assist across the country and broke down the percentage proportionately on that basis. As the Deputy knows, down the west coast of Ireland, in particular, there are very high numbers of people on farm assist and fish assist. Therefore, the biggest increases went proportionately to those places.

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