John Paul Phelan (Fine Gael)

Other towns, less fortunate than those in Kerry and Limerick, will not be looked after either.

The other issue that has arisen since the recent announcement on decentralisation is that for 11 of the 14 towns announced, the jobs to be decentralised there are already decentralised. The civil servants involved are already working outside Dublin and will simply be moved a little further. That will not create any extra decentralisation from Dublin city, which is what we were all supportive of, myself included, when decentralisation was announced.