Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)

None of the 15 staff who is due to transfer to Roscrea worked for the Equality Authority in the first instance. The relocation will lead to problems of experience and expertise. The Minister has destroyed the authority, in effect, in a most vindictive way. He is well aware that a stake is being put through the authority's heart because many of its decisions have embarrassed him and his Government colleagues in recent times.

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