On the cards again? Donohoe to consider decentralisation for civil servants
Decentralisation was previously brought in by former Minister for Finance Charlie McCreevy in 2003.
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Decentralisation was previously brought in by former Minister for Finance Charlie McCreevy in 2003.
Charlie McCreevy set up the last decentralisation programme in the early 2000s.
Ten sites purchased as part of the doomed decentralisation plan of 2003 remain in state hands more than a decade later.
We need to see decentralisation to Irish cities, towns and rural areas in order to promote bottom-up enterprise development, writes Professor Eoin O’Leary.
Moving RTÉ to rural Ireland would create an opportunity to change its funding mechanism away from traditional advertising and the TV licence, writes Marc MacSharry.
RTÉ reports that the closure of decentralised offices of FÁS, the Equality Tribunal, and the Department of the Environment has been given the green light.
Bruton’s VAT on children’s shoes, McCreevy’s decentralisation, Mac the Knife, ‘turning a corner’ – and plenty more.
The government has been criticised for proposing to cut 23,500 jobs in the public sector over the next four years.
The government has outlined plans which also include the merging of nearly 50 state agencies.
The public service reforms to be announced will see less of a reduction in staff numbers in the public sector than had been pledged in the programme for government.
Éamon Ó Cuív says the process has been a success – but that the process will be examined next year. Could it be called off?