Frank Feighan (Fine Gael)

I thank Senator Phelan for sharing his time with me. I called for a debate on decentralisation a little over a year ago, and I come from an area which welcomed any kind of decentralisation. I come from Boyle, which was promised decentralisation. We were told not to ask the hard questions and were promised that everything would be fine. Despite a town site for decentralisation being offered for nothing, Boyle was let down because there was no Minister in that constituency. I contended all along that if a Minister lived in a particular constituency he or she would deliver decentralisation there no matter what criteria were set down. This has happened once again and it is wrong.