Row heats up as union calls for review of decentralisation plan

THE Government moved yesterday to defuse the escalating row over decentralisation by insisting that it was listening to union concerns about moving 10,000 civil servants outside the capital.

One of the main unions concerned called on the Government to review the entire plan, because they said there was a lot of anger about it.

Association of Higher Civil and Public Servants (AHCPS) general secretary Seán O'Riordan said: "No one is listening to our legitimate concerns, not the Department of Finance, nor the Implementation Body nor the Oireachtas Finance Committee."