Decentralisation plan - Opposition lobbying hypocritical

HYPOCRISY is the only word to describe the Jekyll and Hyde posturing of the opposition parties on the vexed issue of decentralisation.

That much is clear from today’s analysis of a raft of parliamentary questions and debates on decentralisation in the four years since Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy’s Budget 2000 plan to decentralise 10,000 jobs.

Our political correspondent’s analysis of OPW records shows the Minister received 247 parliamentary questions on decentralisation.