John Dardis (Progressive Democrats)

I thank all the Senators who participated in this debate. I also thank the Minister of State for doing as requested by the motion and bringing us up to date on the decentralisation process. It is an achievement to have identified four locations and to have a further 20 under negotiation within a six-month period. This indicates the timeframe, which I regarded as ambitious when the announcement was made in the budget, is achievable.

I am somewhat confused, not for the first time, by the attitude of Fine Gael. We started with the reasonable face of Senator Finucane. This was followed by the anti-everything face of Senator Bannon and now we have the schizophrenic face of Senator Ulick Burke.