At the Galway Races Taoiseach Bertie Ahern remains confident in government plans for decentralisation.
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has said that the government's plan to decentralise ten thousand civil and public servants to 53 locations around the country will be fully implemented.
The Taoiseach was speaking while attending the Galway Races at Ballybrit where he dismissed suggestions that there was a ministerial or backbench revolt against the decentralisation programme.
He quickly brushed aside suggestion that the decentralisation programme would stumble at the first hurdle and not hit its three year target.
Also in attendance was Minister for Social and Family Affairs Mary Coughlan who backed the Taoiseach's views that the programme would go ahead as planned.
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was in Ballybrit for the annual Fianna Fáil fundraiser. He placed a 6/4 bet of €50 on Posh Paddy in the first race and won.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 27 July 2004. The reporter is Jim Fahy.
