Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)

My question was whether there has been a failure in planning. The strategy was intended to move posts out of Dublin, to ease pressures on Dublin. We have ended up with a programme that is only 15% implemented. Half the people who are moving were not in Dublin and the Government still will not admit that there was a failure of planning and strategy framing in regard to this programme. In the case of State agency not a single person is moving. At some point a Minister must stand up and say this was a blunder and that if we are to do this sort of thing in future, we need to do it better.

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