Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

There is no point in the Deputy doing the usual stunt in respect of a question on decentralisation. The implementation group, which knows much more about this process than anyone in this House, provided a financial model which confirms that the payback in respect of relocation can be done on a property basis over 20 years. I presume the Deputy is trying to extrapolate. He can just throw out a figure which the media will cover and we will all have to take as gospel.

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