| After Deputy Power made his promise, the Government decided to shelve its plans for decentralisation until after the general election. |
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| Certainly when I worked there, decentralisation was a topic on everyone's lips and not a lot of people wanted to move. |
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| If we are to have a proper enterprise economy in the north and encourage decentralisation, we need to plan for it and prepare for it. |
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| The efforts in recent years of successive governments at decentralisation is no more than a cosmetic exercise. |
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| He said effective decentralisation of resources and responsibilities was also important for growth. |
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| This restructuring and decentralisation plan simplifies our business, and will improve our focus, agility and control. |
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| This is intended to help government and its partners clarify processes for the decentralisation process and build capacity for it. |
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| These jobs were not part of the Government's decentralisation announcement in the December Budget. |
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| No sooner are the local elections over than the government's decentralisation plan has hit the buffers. |
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| He speaks about mutualism, localism, devolution and the decentralisation of power. |
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| Childcare is likely to be the headline grabber this year, just as disability was last year and decentralisation was the previous year. |
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| Even if taken at face value, what is to be gained by this decentralisation? |
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| It was another aspect of the Government's decentralisation programme that was working for the betterment of local areas. |
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| Just how fast we can move towards industrial decentralisation cannot now be said. |
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| We support gay marriages, decriminalising soft drugs and prostitution, and decentralisation. |
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| It is time for a radical decentralisation programme for our vastly overmanned Civil Service. |
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| Hopefully, we'll have hundreds of civil servants setting up in due course when decentralisation comes on stream, so there's no danger of oversupplying the housing market. |
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| In these cases, earmarking funds for a particular sector at the federal level violates the principle of decentralisation. |
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| India has a federal set up and its institutions are modelled on the principle of decentralisation and unity in diversity. |
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| No sooner had the Finance Minister announced the decentralisation plan in his latest Budget than the begrudgers in Dublin were adopting a dog-in-the-manger attitude. |
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| He is the least hostile of the civil and public service union leaders towards decentralisation, mainly because of his union's younger age profile. |
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| Moreover, managerial decentralisation and a shift in the locus of bargaining and power relations raises the prospect for trade union renewal at the state sector workplace. |
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| We jointly contribute, strategically and operationally, to attaining our common goals, with due respect to the principle of decentralisation. |
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| The work still to be done includes important areas such as creating genuine local self-governance and implementing genuine decentralisation. |
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| Vast amounts are whittled away on such concepts as benchmarking and decentralisation, but urgent road projects are still being argued over at Oireachtas committees. |
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| The third wave of reform is on the drawing board, moving one step further along the road to decentralisation at municipality level. |
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| If, however, decentralisation is not accompanied by the necessary powers, it might well turn out to be a two-edged sword. |
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| The decentralisation processes currently being implemented in the other States of the Union seem likely to reinforce this trend. |
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| We no longer want centralism and unification, but decentralisation and freedom. |
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| Under these conditions, the decentralisation of excise duties does not seem to hinder the proper functioning of the internal market. |
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| Although the decentralisation of euro markets is a reality, their segmentation should obviously not be seen as a foregone conclusion. |
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| The cases involved decentralisation of activity, but show a 'three-way dynamic' between central government, civil society and local government. |
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| My concern, where decentralisation is concerned, is that there should not be a repatriation of competition policy. |
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| Another important area where further decentralisation could be useful is the management of fisheries within the territorial waters. |
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| But the results of decentralisation in terms of provision of public services and support for local economic development remain paltry. |
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| By contrast, a medial arthrotomy led to a decentralisation of the patella with numerous patellar luxations. |
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| This is consistent with the process of deconcentration and decentralisation which the Community wishes to implement. |
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| In the current context of decentralisation, providing basic public services remains focused on formal legality and administrative meanderings. |
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| The need for decentralisation of fi nances and decision-making over curriculum, methods and materials is also emphasised. |
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| It notes that the decentralisation process in Kosovo has advanced significantly. |
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| This is a part of governance and decentralisation, and it will be developed this way. |
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| The two-stage process yields a higher output per unit time, and enables the geographic decentralisation of preform and bottle production. |
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| There is no question of saying that decentralisation is undesirable in developing countries: to the contrary. |
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| Three principles are shaping up the Eurosystem: independence, transparency and decentralisation. |
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| However, even in smaller countries like the Netherlands, a process of decentralisation is evident. |
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| It advocates decentralisation, economic reforms, additional support for the less well-off and a return to the pacifism spelled out in the constitution. |
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| This shows that devolution and decentralisation is the way of the future and I look forward to further initiatives under the Better Local Government programme. |
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| The Association should encourage the decentralisation of multinational companies to economic blackspots and areas that do not suffer from labour shortages. |
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| Kiltimagh is the ideal location for decentralisation of IT type projects. |
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| The call for application of the subsidiarity principle to the CFP lies within the argument for its decentralisation. |
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| According to the level of deconcentration and decentralisation, they can be available, in disaggregated form by region, by education level and type and by categories of expenditures. |
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| Because of this need for restructuring, deconcentration had to be conceived in relation to a reform of the State, not just as one pillar of decentralisation. |
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| A public administration reform strategy was launched in May 2004, covering the area of civil service reform, decentralisation and deconcentration, and policy co-ordination. |
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| On this last point, it would appear to be necessary to support the reforms initiated in certain neighbourhood countries towards decentralisation and deconcentration, through twinning programmes in particular. |
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| In the late 1980s a process of decentralisation was undertaken by the French government. |
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| In short, the ideology of decentralisation responds to a revolutionary conceptualisation of the 'local' as a space of planning and socio-economic regulation. |
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| It is no longer possible to conceptualise the question of decentralisation without taking account of the modes of political regulation of local governance that integrate accountability functions. |
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| What balance can be found between centralisation and decentralisation of the measures which govern territorial cooperation activities, the nature and specific characteristics of the limits of which are now agreed? |
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| Where should the balance be between centralisation and decentralisation? |
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| On the other hand, the UNDP was receiving an increasing number of requests from its member states to assist them in their democratisation and decentralisation processes. |
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| The decentralisation of the Sixth Framework Programme is important, but it is just as important not to weigh down the newly integrated projects, centres of excellence, with an enormous amount of red tape. |
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| Some decentralisation is welcome, creating more living space. |
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| The second outcome was an online network, designed to help trade unions exchange information and develop strategies for tackling decentralisation. |
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| This means, inter alia, that we have demanded assurances in terms of efficient administration, decentralisation, swift payments, avoidance of bottlenecks and scrutiny of funds. |
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| Embarking on decentralisation is tantamount to recognising that the central State can no longer do everything singlehandedly and that it needs the contribution of other stakeholders. |
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| The second is that decentralisation, with participatory democracy as its political goal, makes it possible to respond to populations' needs while including them as both actors in and beneficiaries of the public action. |
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| The policy also broaches discussion about political decentralisation. |
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| The European Commission has adopted a major set of measures to support decentralisation reform and re-enforcement of local governance in Ukraine. |
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| This paper examines the background to calls for further fiscal decentralisation in Scotland in the light of theories of fiscal federalism. |
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| This study examines the role of democratic institutions in an attempt to explain the relationship between fiscal decentralisation and inflation. |
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| Sussex seems to have had a greater degree of decentralisation than other kingdoms. |
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| That the vast and perennial issues of English decentralisation and House of Lords reform must be dealt with at the same time as the West Lothian question. |
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| He said the NT government had been speaking with the regional council, local authorities and service providers and was continuing to work towards decentralisation. |
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| They were created for administrative reasons to increase decentralisation in the city. |
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| This centralised measure for recruiting heads of unit runs counter to what the Commission in fact advocates when arranging decentralisation in favour of directors general. |
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| Democracy and decentralisation have not proved panaceas. |
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| He added that the Commission is drawing up a strategy to support the local development process through improved governance, the promotion of decentralisation and territorial development. |
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| The national strategy highlights the importance of involving provincial, districts and communities in any national response, and decentralisation of responsibility became a priority. |
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| This large measure of decentralisation reflects the goals of association and partnership which mark out relations between the ACP countries and the Member States. |
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| The main feature of the principle of subsidiarity laid down in the Treaty is to encourage, whenever possible and necessary, a real decentralisation in the enforcement of Community policies. |
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| In the framework of decentralisation policies and according to the subsidiarity principle, it is important to reinforce the autonomy of local government by providing them with the necessary competencies and resources. |
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| Challenges ahead: Given the existing budgetary constraints at both national and local level, the regions lagging behind may find it difficult to cope with the fast pace of the process of decentralisation. |
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| They must put into practice their decentralisation objectives. |
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| The WASH sectors should keep pace with broader decentralisation reforms and devolve responsibilities as well as adequate resources to lower tiers of government administration. |
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| That is why decentralisation and subsidiarity are vital for our country, so that we do not become a society of strangers, but can build bonds of solidarity and mutual obligation. |
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| Local powerful elites who controlled the locality through patronage and fear before decentralisation, usually continue to hold sway afterwards until challenged by democratically elected local councillors and civil society. |
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| He then underlined the tendency of the rules on competition to go against the systems of regional development that contradict the realities of decentralisation. |
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| What challenges have decentralisation initiatives thrown up? |
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| He defended a strict separation of powers, decentralisation, extending the franchise to anyone who held property of value and limiting the power of the clergy. |
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| Lewis' rejection of statism and support for political decentralisation is pivotal, reflected in his advocacy of interdependence at sub-national and supra-national levels. |
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| Inverness is home to Scottish Natural Heritage following that body's relocation from Edinburgh under the auspices of the Scottish Government's decentralisation strategy. |
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| Following devolution of power to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in 1998, the government proposed similar decentralisation of power across England. |
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| The main feature of the system was its high degree of decentralisation. |
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| The link with 'development' is never established, although decentralists often talk about the positive relationship between development and decentralisation. |
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| Decentralisation of power is the key to ensuring smooth conduct of examinations. |
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| Decentralisation of disbursal of cash benefits and monthly meetings at the district level of various Welfare Boards will improve the situation for workers. |
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| Two very clear sides of the fence may have emerged over the Government's elusive Decentralisation and Localism Bill. |
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| Decentralisation was supported with much resistance of Constitutional Court and conservative opposition, so did gender politics like quotas or the law against gender violence. |
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