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Wed 06 Jun 2007FG attacks 'cynical' Government policy on decentralisationFine Gael has accused the Government of "cynicism and dishonesty", and of trying to hide behind the decentralisation implementation body over the low numbers willing to relocate from State agencies.Party spokesman Richard Bruton claimed that in the four years since the decentralisation proposal was introduced, Minister for Finance Brian Cowen had failed to come up with a solution for agencies where "tiny numbers are indicating a willingness to move with their job". There "is an onus on the political masters who introduced this scheme to stand up and take responsibility and to come up with proposals to deal with this issue", he said.