Hubs and gateways get only 25% of State jobs

ONLY a quarter of the 10,300 jobs to be decentralised will go to cities and towns identified as centres for development in the National Spatial Strategy, Labour revealed yesterday.

Eight Government departments and the Office of Public Works will be moved entirely out of Dublin to Portlaoise, Killarney, Cavan, Newbridge, Knock airport, Mullingar, Wexford, Drogheda and Trim.

Subsidiaries from the eight departments will be located in a further 42 towns under the decentralisation plan outlined by Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy yesterday.