Public service decentralisation

Madam, - The Government appears to be backpeddling on its ill-advised plan to decentralise 400 Fás workers to Birr, Co Offaly…

Madam, - The Government appears to be backpeddling on its ill-advised plan to decentralise 400 Fás workers to Birr, Co Offaly. The question now arises as to why the Government has 400 people working in Fás when our economy has the lowest unemployment rate in Europe. Perhaps some of these public servants should be decentralised to the Department of Health. - Is mise,

ANTHONY O'NEILL, Blackrock, Co Dublin.