Frank Feighan (Fine Gael)

The Minister for Finance, Deputy McCreevy, announced in 1999 that over 10,000 State jobs would be decentralised to areas that have not already benefited from decentralisation. Nothing has happened in that regard in the past three years. He invited submissions from each county council and Roscommon County Council, of which I am a member, eagerly awaits an announcement from him. I ask the Leader of the House to invite the Minister for Finance to come to this House to say when he intends to make a decision and to outline the nature of that decision.