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Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: Three categories of specialists — principal development specialists, senior development specialists and development specialists — are employed by Irish Aid. None of the three principal development specialists who serve in Irish Aid's headquarters in Dublin has applied to decentralise to Limerick. None of the 12 senior development specialists who work in Irish Aid's headquarters has...

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: I do not intend to lose my patience at this point, obviously, as I have to answer the questions I am asked in this House. I have answered the Deputy's question on no less than four occasions, most recently at a Dáil committee when I gave precise figures to him. His repeated questioning belies the attempts which have been made by this House to provide researchers——

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: ——for Dáil Deputies, including Front Bench spokespersons. It seems Deputy Allen cannot simply collate the figures I gave him last week.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: Perhaps he has some difficulty——

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: ——or terrible problem of memory.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: It is clear that he cannot remember the figures I gave him last week.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: The Deputy referred to the protection of corporate memory, but I suggest that he should try to find a way of protecting his own memory. I gave him these figures last week at a committee meeting.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: It is clear the Deputy does not do his research or take any note of the responses he gets.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: He has made some totally groundless assertions in this House about the nature of the decentralisation programme.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: I will give the Deputy the figures yet again, not so much for his benefit——

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: ——as I have already given him this information, but for the benefit of other Deputies who may not have asked the question or been given an answer.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: Deputy Allen was given these figures last week.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: It is a most vexatious strategy on the Deputy's part and on the part of Fine Gael. The Deputy was given these figures last week but he has forgotten them again. It does not give me great hope for the kind of Government that Fine Gael is trying to form with the Labour Party that Deputies are forgetting the figures they were given a week ago.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: I will give the figures again. Deputy Allen referred to Development Co-operation Ireland——

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: ——but I remind him that it no longer exists. It is called Irish Aid, but the Deputy referred to Development Co-operation Ireland.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: Perhaps his memory is failing him in that respect as well.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: I have given the figures today and I will give them again now because the Deputy did not hear me last week or on the two previous occasions. Some 35 people within the development co-operation division, or Irish Aid as it is now called, have opted to go to Limerick.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: Some 35 people are willing to move.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: A further 16 people have opted to apply for positions in Limerick.

Decentralisation Programme. (24 May 2006)

Conor Lenihan: The Deputy is hardly blaming me for Fine Gael's lack of imagination——