Decentralisation plan - Civil service move not thought out

Despite any gloss with which he may try to mask the question of decentralisation, Tom Parlon, the minister with responsibility to implement it, should accept the inevitable.

It is not working, and is unlikely ever to work.

Having failed in the course of the past three years since it was mooted to make any great inroads in transferring civil servants out of Dublin, it is unlikely to happen now, other than on an unsatisfactory piecemeal basis.