Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 256: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of personnel who on applying for promotion in his Department since January 2004, have been required to sign an agreement that they are willing to decentralise; how many of them refused to sign the agreement; if this impacted on their promotion or otherwise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4067/05]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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In the period since January 2004, the Department of Finance has made six promotional appointments from interdepartmental Civil Service panels; four assistant principal officers, two executive officers. These appointees have agreed to decentralise to Tullamore for three years and two years respectively, where required to do so.

My Department understands from the public appointments service that three people declined the APO posts and 13 people declined the EO posts referred to above. Those people continue to remain on the panel for further offers to other locations.