Noel Coonan (Fine Gael)

In view of the fact that the committee charged with implementing the decentralisation policy to Roscrea has been recently informed that a section of the Equality Authority that was to move there will not now be going because nobody wants to move and they have refused to do so, I ask the Leader to invite the Minister concerned, the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Parlon — even though the Minister for Finance might say he has nothing to do with it — to come into the House and explain progress on decentralisation to date. I hope this is not the beginning of the unravelling of that policy. It is very important that this House debate the issue and support the decentralisation policy. Given that the Equality Authority is not being decentralised to Roscrea, will the Leader of the House ask the Minister to consider decentralising the Garda Complaints Board or the proposed new Garda Ombudsman Commission to Roscrea to make up for that loss?