Parlon builds up €90m decentralisation fund

PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS Minister Tom Parlon has amassed a decentralisation kitty of €90 million, by selling off unused State properties.

Figures to be published by the Government today are expected significantly boost the controversial programme by showing up to 9,000 public servants want to be relocated from Dublin.

But it remains to be seen if Mr Parlon will still be in his present position as Junior Minister for Finance to oversee the rollout of decentralisation by the Office of Public Works, involving the relocation of 10,300 public sector workers to 52 locations across the country.