No appetite for decentralisation, admits Ahern

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern conceded yesterday there was “no appetite” within State agencies to decentralise.

His colleague, Minister of State Tom Parlon, insisted “very sophisticated industrial relations machinery” was being used to work out the problems with the planned decentralisation programme.

But, on the issue of the reluctance of civil servants to relocate, the junior minister was forced to admit: “I don’t know what the solution is.”