Where I stand on decentralisation
If your reporter had done some research of his own, rather than simply regurgitate Mr Parlon’s words, he would have discovered that, in my Dáil speech on this, I made a clear distinction between the relocation of back-office type functions out of Dublin and the relocation of headquarters functions.
I believe that, for the sake of the coherence of policymaking, the headquarter functions of Government agencies should all be in the one place, ie, the capital city (whatever city that is).
