Martin Mansergh (Fianna Fail)

The notion that nothing is happening in Tipperary could not be further from the truth.

There is also the issue of Roscrea. Senators opposite may remember that we recently passed the Garda Ombudsman Bill which provides for a Garda Ombudsman's office. I suppose, strictly speaking and if one is being pedantic about it, it is not decentralisation because a new office is being established. One could say the same of the Private Security Authority. However, part of the decentralisation policy announced last year was that when new agencies were being established, they would be established, by preference, outside the capital which is happening. I have spoken to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform and to the officials driving the decentralisation programme in the Department and I am very confident that all the decentralisation plans announced under that Department will happen.

Another fallacy in interpretation is the notion——