Dáil Éireann - Volume 639 - 16 October, 2007

Written Answers. - Decentralisation Programme.

Deputy Joan Burton Deputy Joan Burton

Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of civil servants based in Dublin who have applied for decentralisation, who have been transferred to their decentralising post and are actually in position in the decentralised location outside of Dublin; and the locations and the number of civil servants transferred from a Dublin post who are at such locations. [24425/07]

Deputy Joan Burton Deputy Joan Burton

Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of civil servants and other public servants who have relocated to locations outside of Dublin under the Government’s decentralisation programme; the estimated number of each category who will have relocated by the end of 2007; if she will break each set of figures down in terms of those who are relocating from Dublin and relocating from elsewhere; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24439/07]

Deputy Mary Coughlan Deputy Mary Coughlan

  Deputy Mary Coughlan: I propose to take Questions Nos. 412 and 413 together.

To the end of September, some 250 civil servants have transferred to my Department’s offices in Portlaoise under the decentralisation programme. It is expected that 10 to 20 more will have moved by the end of 2007. 180 of the 250 were Dublin-based and 70 were from other locations.

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