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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 22 Nov 1988

Vol. 384 No. 5

Written Answers. - Government Decentralisation.

63.

asked the Minister for Finance if, in view of factory closures in County Roscommon, the redundancies at the County Hospital and of Bord na Móna employees, he will transfer a Government Department to County Roscommon.

The Government's current decentralisation programme is based on the original list of centres selected in 1980 when decentralisation of Government Departments to provincial centres was first proposed. These centres are at Athlone, Ballina, Cavan, Dundalk, Ennis, Galway, Killarney, Letterkenny, Limerick, Nenagh, Sligo and Waterford.

The decision to confine the revived programme to the centres selected in 1980 was guided by the ready availability of sites in many of these locations, and the degree of preliminary planning which had been carried out regarding both the accommodation required and the staff to be transferred.

The decentralisation programme now under way is an ambitious one, and the Government's present priority is its implementation. The Government will however at a later date and in the light of the experience gained be in a position to consider representations from other centres including Roscommon as further locations for decentralised offices.

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