Dáil Éireann - Volume 615 - 21 February, 2006

Written Answers. - Decentralisation Programme.

  406. Mr. Bruton asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the office or unit within his Department and associated unit that is due to be decentralised; the number of posts and staff in tabular form from each unit within his Department and associated agency who have chosen to decentralise with their parent organisation; and [329] the number of people willing to move who have been assigned their new posts. [6670/06]

  Mr. O’Donoghue: My Department, with the exception of the National Archives, will be transferring to Killarney under the Government’s decentralisation programme. The number of first preference applications received under the central appli[330] cations facility for approximately 130 posts exceeds the numbers required in the case of most of the grades.

The following table shows the number of internal and external assignments that have been made to posts in the Department that are decentralising to Killarney. Those who have been assigned already are officers who had Killarney as their first preference location on the central applications facility.

Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism

Number of posts in the Department that will decentralise to Killarney

130

Number of internal staff who have chosen to decentralise with the Department

13

Number of internal staff who have chosen to decentralise with the Department and who have been assigned to their posts

12

Number of external staff, who have chosen to relocate to Killarney, that have been taken in and assigned to their posts

4 (9 further officers will be assigned in the next month)

Three of my Department’s agencies have also been selected to decentralise; the Sports Council to Killarney, Fáilte Ireland to Mallow and the Arts Council to Kilkenny. These agencies were not identified as early movers. The following tables show details of staff who have been assigned in order to relocate to the designated locations.

Irish Sports Council

Number of posts in the agency that will decentralise to Killarney

25

Number of internal staff who have chosen to decentralise with the agency

0

Number of external staff, who have chosen to relocate to Killarney, who have been taken in and assigned to their posts

7

Arts Council

Number of posts in the agency that will decentralise to Kilkenny

43.5

Number of internal staff who have chosen to decentralise with the agency

0

Number of external staff, who have chosen to relocate to Kilkenny, that have been taken in and assigned to their posts

6

Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism

Number of posts in the Department that will decentralise to Killarney

130

Number of internal staff who have chosen to decentralise with the Department

13

Number of internal staff who have chosen to decentralise with the Department and who have been assigned to their posts

12

Fáilte Ireland

Number of posts in the agency that will decentralise to Mallow

178

Number of internal staff who have chosen to decentralise with the agency

0

Number of external staff, who have chosen to relocate to Mallow, who have been taken in and assigned to their posts

0