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Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (8 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: The Department of Foreign Affairs has published its second implementation plan for the decentralisation of Development Co-operation Ireland to Limerick. This plan includes risk mitigation strategies. The Department's audit committee has discussed the issue of decentralisation and has reviewed the associated risk assessment. In September 2005, the audit committee published its annual report...

Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (8 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: The earthquake which struck south Asia, particularly Pakistan, on 8 October has had devastating consequences. The unusually shallow nature of the quake caused widespread structural damage and current estimates put the dead at more than 70,000, including 17,000 children. Ireland was among the first countries to respond to the disaster and our quick response was widely welcomed. Within a few...

Leaders' Questions. (9 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: The Labour Party is cogging the exams again.

Leaders' Questions. (9 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: Deputy Higgins should make sure the guns are not targeted at him.

Ferns Report: Statements (Resumed). (9 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: I pay tribute to those who came forward to speak to the Ferns Inquiry to outline the appalling abuse they suffered. I find the Ferns Report deeply disturbing and shocking, not because I am a Minister of State or a Dáil Deputy, but because I am a father of young children. The only times I have been moved to tears during my eight-year political career in this House have been when the victims...

Decentralisation Programme. (10 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: Under the Government's decentralisation programme, announced in December 2003, the development cooperation directorate of the Department of Foreign Affairs, based in Dublin, is scheduled to decentralise to Limerick. This will involve the relocation to Limerick of 123 posts and is scheduled to take place during the first quarter of 2007. There are 42 people working within the Department with a...

Decentralisation Programme. (10 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: I do not think the Deputy was listening to me. I specified a figure of 42.

Decentralisation Programme. (10 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: The Deputy may be relatively new to his portfolio as Opposition spokesman on foreign affairs.

Decentralisation Programme. (10 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: The Deputy may not be aware that DCI is a fully integrated part of the Department of Foreign Affairs, we are the Department. Although DCI has a different name it is a division of the Department, like the Europe division and so on.

Decentralisation Programme. (10 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: It is integrated in the Department of Foreign Affairs. I am not massaging figures — 42 people within the Department are prepared to decentralise to Limerick which represents 34% of the staff requirement we will need.

Decentralisation Programme. (10 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: I do not understand how the Member opposite, who represents a Cork constituency, could oppose decentralisation.

Decentralisation Programme. (10 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: His contribution is ironic because it seems to suggest there is something untoward or wrong in moving a Department to Limerick.

Decentralisation Programme. (10 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: Many of our partner countries in Europe are decentralising——

Decentralisation Programme. (10 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: ——very serious functions to Africa, Pakistan and other places. Other countries are decentralising to the field, not within their own countries. The United Kingdom has been through a decentralisation to Scotland which has been a success.

Decentralisation Programme. (10 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: A site has been identified.

Decentralisation Programme. (10 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: We will be in a position to execute this move without any great loss to the programme. We have done our homework and the officials have put in place a serious risk management strategy to ensure that corporate memory is protected and there is a hand-over period of a month as one staff comes on board and another is moved to other duties. There will be proper induction and a centralised computer...

Decentralisation Programme. (10 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: I answered that question two days ago at the meeting of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and I also answered it last month.

Decentralisation Programme. (10 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: The risk assessment is published on my website.

Decentralisation Programme. (10 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: It is updated and monitored on a regular basis. Obviously we have development specialists in the field. Most of them are there, many of them local employees. Of the development specialists in headquarters, 11 out of the 24 have applied to go to Limerick and are prepared to go there. Of the senior specialist grades which the Deputy mentioned, and of which there are seven, none has currently...

Decentralisation Programme. (10 Nov 2005)

Conor Lenihan: While we have a problem at the senior level, we are oversubscribed at middle and lower management ranks. Plenty of people are willing to travel.