Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

The decision was made at budget time by the Government that decentralisation could continue where Departments had rented property in locations and had staff resident in them. That is what happened in regard to the Equality Authority and Roscrea. I have asked my officials to tell all the organisations that I do not want a fanfare. It was the case that organisations attached to my Department and others went to great lengths employing the services of public relations and consultancies and in the way in which they portrayed their annual reports.

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