Ministerial bases do well in plan for decentralisation

THREE Government departments and the Office of Public Works will move headquarters to the constituencies of serving ministers under Charlie McCreevy’s decentralisation plan.

Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism John O’Donoghue will have his workplace on his own doorstep when his department transfers to Killarney in his South Kerry constituency. Agriculture and Food is earmarked for Portlaoise in the Laois-Offaly constituency, which boasts two

Offaly-based ministers, Brian Cowen in Foreign Affairs and Minister of State Tom Parlon.