People have had the mistaken notion that decentralisation costs money in net terms. Senator MacSharry's father, when Minister for Finance, introduced decentralisation in the late 1980s as a cost-cutting measure because rents and many other associated costs were lower in towns throughout the country than in central Dublin. There were two tranches of decentralisation in the late 1980s and early 1990s and, as far as I can judge, they were successful. There was decentralisation under the last Government viz the North-South Implementation Bodies, including the food safety office in Cork.