If local authorities were responsible for most of the provision of funding for education and if they had responsibility for much of the policing function and a responsibility for a dozen different areas, then the administrative skills and capacities of the local authorities would need to be expanded. The same civil servants who are now based in Dublin could be invited to move and work with the local authorities which had been given expanded powers. That would have the same effect as the decentralisation of parts of Government Departments. It would mean that local authorities would then have real authority.