Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

As the Deputy knows, that review is due to be considered and completed in 2011. The current priority in the programme is to effect the decentralisation of those proposals which have been approved and are going ahead. I gave broad figures and have some supplementary information to the effect that 3,153 people have moved, with 5,000 positions subject to review. I do not have the numbers for movements intra-Dublin. The position concerns the number of posts that were to be created in decentralised locations. Where these are open they will be made available to people. The fact is that some 3,000 people have moved to those locations. Regarding decentralisation, if a person from Wexford in a position in Limerick had a possibility of moving to Wexford, that is as much a decentralisation for that person as it would be to move from Dublin to Tubbercurry. It is the same principle.

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