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

I am happy to answer that for the Deputy. He is right to point out that there have been more additional places in Mayo than in Cork and that Cork has a much higher population than Mayo. Of course, Dublin has a higher population than Cork. There are more than 1 million people in Dublin and I allocated no additional places to the rural social scheme in Dublin

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