Farm staff move is a ploy to fool town

I WAS amused recently to read of Cork county politicians calling for 110 jobs to be moved from Model Farm Road in the city to Macroom under the guise of the so-called Government decentralisation scheme.

And I was amazed at how few city politicians came out publicly against such a foolish and costly move.

While the benefits of moving some government jobs from a top-heavy Dublin to the regions would make sense — and we in Cork would welcome some of those decentralised jobs for the city — I believe the proposal to relocate the Department of Agriculture from Cork to Macroom is nothing more than a ploy to fool the people of that town into thinking that they would benefit in some way.