Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I propose to take Questions Nos. 7 and 34 together.

As the Deputy will be aware, the decentralisation programme announced in December 2003 involved the potential relocation of more than 10,000 civil and public service jobs to 53 locations in 25 counties. It was a Government decision in 2011 that the programme be cancelled in light of the budgetary and staffing outlook at that time. Up to that date, about a third of the target numbers, more than 3,400 posts, were decentralised. The proportion of civil servants working outside Dublin is now just over 50%. There are no plans at the present time to introduce a further programme of decentralisation.

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