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Sat 09 Sep 2010The decentralisation debacle
It was one of the big plans of Bertie Aherns government: to move 10,300 Dublin-based public servants outside the capital before 2007. Today, with just 3,159 jobs moved, the misguided project lies in ruins. Part one of a three-part series looks at an idea whose time has gone
CHARLIE McCREEVY used to call it the Big D – and the project was so secret that even top civil servants were kept in the dark until the last minute. The staggering scale of this smash-and-grab plot was known to less than a handful of ministers until he finally revealed it in his budget speech as minister for finance on December 4th 2003.
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