The Government has agreed to hold a discussion on its decentralisation programme at an Oireachtas Committee.
The announcement followed criticism by the Labour Party, which threatened to call a series of Dáil votes in protest at the rejection by the Government majority on the committee of a proposal to hold hearings into the issue.
Labour had accused Junior Finance Minister Tom Parlon of 'gross misrepresentation' over the reasons the Oireachtas Finance Committee did not hold full hearings into the decentralisation programme.
Mr Parlon had said the committee would not be reviewing the programme due to a lack of time.
Labour's Finance Spokesperson Joan Burton said that time was not an issue, but that Government members of the committee had voted down a proposed review because the Government did not want a serious public examination of the policy.
Earlier, the Association of Higher Civil and Public Servants also called on the Government to review the decentralisation proposals announced in last December's Budget.
The union wants a facility set up at Government and Oireachtas levels so that what it calls legitimate concerns expressed by many trade unions can be heard and considered.
Under the Government's decentralisation plans, more than 10,000 public and civil servants are due to be moved out of Dublin to towns around the country over the next three years.
