Council fears decentralisation snub after jobs pledge

PUBLIC representatives in Waterford city are getting anxious about decentralisation plans for the region as the Government has failed to reply to a request from the city council about the civil service move.

Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy announced in the December budget that 200 jobs from the Department of the Environment would be going to Waterford under his decentralisation plan.

But the city council has failed to get a reply from the minister’s office on the jobs move - despite sending the Department of Finance a list of its assets and possible locations for such a project in the region.