Alan Kelly (Labour)

I agree with the Senators who requested a discussion on the decentralisation programme. While in Clonakilty in west Cork recently, I saw the fine new premises that has been put up for BIM and the wanton waste in that the volume of staff moving into it will be only a fraction of its total employment. It raises questions about the entire programme, which was put in place for the benefactors of the Fianna Fáil Party and the construction industry.

There is no justification for having buildings around the country like this empty while there is a Gaelscoil a couple of kilometres up the road that is in prefabs for 14 years.