Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

That happens all the time, for example, when an assistant principal is promoted to principal officer or an EO is promoted to HEO and moves to a different section of a Department. Such moves are ever-present in Departments. This involves 4,000 or 5,000 people over three or four years and that should not create an excuse. It raises the old question of whether people want to embrace this and move. There are people who do and there are some who are against it. The fact is 11,000 civil servants, over half of whom are in Dublin, are anxious to move.

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