Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail)

It is no wonder when we have to listen to him paint a picture of dismal gloom to a point where I was almost in tears until I woke up and realised he was not talking about Ireland 2003 but about some never never land in which Fine Gael resides. The circle is complete. Fine Gael lives in the past and we have a putative Minister for Finance who does not believe in decentralisation. I will be happy to tell the Labour Party candidate in Leitrim at the weekend that his colleague in Dublin said in the Seanad that he is not in favour of decentralising Government offices to County Leitrim.

Question put and declared carried.