Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I cannot refer to my predecessor's reference to the question of corresponding buildings. The issue of buildings is one which my colleague is dealing with in conjunction with the Office of Public Works. With regard to the non-involvement of decentralisation costs or a provision for next year, these will arise in the multi-annual Estimates 2005-2009 which will be published with the budget. They were not included in the previous multi-annual envelope.

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