Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail)

I would be very happy if Fine Gael organised a cost-benefit analysis and benchmarked that against what has been suggested. Perhaps Senator Mullins is not wrong about the valuations relating to property, but decentralisation should be benchmarked against the social and economic contribution it has made to rural Ireland. Decentralisation has been as much about that as about anything else. The Senator is treading on very thin ice here. He should go back to his constituents and tell them he is not in favour of decentralisation and tell the people who have decentralised that-----