That was just one of the many issues raised at a public meeting to discuss the Review of Policy on the location of public sector jobs, headed by retired Queen's University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir George Bain.
Other points of interest debated during the meeting - which took place at the town's council offices on Friday - were high levels of child poverty and minimum wage jobs in the area, as well as the loss to local retailers from the large number of commuters travelling to work in Belfast.
Professor Bain was accompanied at the meeting by Brian Hanna, a former Town Clerk and Chief Executive of Belfast City Council.
The pair form part of a seven-member review panel currently engaged in a province-wide opinion gathering exercise.
Mr Hanna revealed that, according to figures for the Northern Ireland Civil Service alone, some 196 people with home addresses in the Dungannon area, are employed in Belfast.
Professor Bain added that Northern Ireland currently has the highest proportion of public sector jobs in Britain.
Addressing the meeting, one representative of Dungannon-based accountancy firm, Cavanagh-Kelly, said the company was not getting the benefit of being able to take on public sector work.
Outlining the company's significant growth in recent years to a workforce of 60, the spokesperson said that decisions about the granting of public contracts are continually made outside Belfast.
She said that, with a high number of graduates being employed every year by the firm, public sector work was required for the company to grow at its recent rate.
Speaking prior to the meeting, Dungannon and South Tyrone Mayor, Cllr Barry Monteith, drew Professor Bain's attention to the fact that the area has the highest rate of child poverty in the north.
Cllr Monteith said that, while the area has a strong private sector, the mix of employment is far from ideal, with many jobs at the minimum wage level.
The Mayor also pointed to the relocation, in recent years, of significant numbers of jobs to Omagh.
Council official and branch secretary of the trade union Nipsa, Oliver Morgan, said that, with large numbers of local people commuting to Belfast each day, retailers in the town were not benefitting from the knock-on spending power of such workers.
Mr Morgan also called for a model on the way in which jobs are transferred from one location to another.
The Review Panel is expected to deliver its report in the summer, and any interested parties are invited to submit their views on the issue of public sector jobs, in writing, to location.review@dfpni.gov.uk by May 23.