Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

I do not know how in the next Dáil we will roll back some of the new precedents the Ceann Comhairle has established. They have made a joke of Question Time. Members have put down questions to the Taoiseach about his meeting with the social partners. I am asking him if decentralisation came up and what assurances he can give the very many people in this city who have children in education and put down roots and who are being given no choice about relocation out of Dublin. Would it not be better to go back to the drawing board to negotiate a voluntary programme of decentralisation in support of more balanced regional development in Ireland?

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