Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

I would like to do so very quickly because the staff need clarity in terms of the decentralisation programme. The proposal has just been forwarded to me and, having gone through it very quickly, my sense of it is as I have outlined. If the Deputy tables a parliamentary question, I hope I will have reached a definitive position when making my response. I hope I have conveyed the position to the Deputy correctly but I have not immersed myself in the detail. I have outlined my grasp of the matter.

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