Re: Re: NSS & Decentralisation

I wasn’t debating the wisdom of moving govt functions, I was pointing out a factual inaccuracy in your original post, viz.

One of the key aspects of the National Spatial Strategy was the decentralisation of Government Departments

Re your question, a very quick Google search yields this site: http://www.decentralisation.gov.ie/

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If you want to debate the wisdom of moving the functions, we can do that too.

The price of ‘Decentralisation’ should not be the efficiency of the civil and public service. And I reiterate- it was the so-called ‘Decentralisation’ here’s-one-for-everyone-in-the-audience project that proposed this, not the NSS.

If it’s such a good idea, why then are so many civil and public servants so vehemently opposed to it? I would suggest it is because these are people, not just numbers on a chart.

The topic has been discussed previously in these threads:

De-Centralisation
Blanket ban on one-off housing in Northern Ireland announced