Shane Ross (Independent)

Senator Dardis will have his chance to speak in a moment when we will probably have another lecture on stem cells, if we are lucky.

Anybody who has to work in Dublin knows it is not a pleasant place to live. We should say yes to further decentralisation. There may be some peculiar preferences regarding where Departments are going. That is a political point. In every case the proposed moves allow the Minister in question to drop in on his way to Dublin. If we look at the list we can see they are all on the roads the Ministers take to Dublin. That may not be the case for the Minister of State present – I have not time to go through them.