Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 33: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if any new information is available to him in regard to additional applications through the central applications facility for posts in his Department to be transferred to new locations under the Government's decentralisation plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5810/05]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has received information from the central applications facility, CAF, on a number of occasions since September 2004.

The information received relates to numbers of civil and public servants who have expressed an interest in decentralising with my Department to Knock Airport and na Forbacha, the grade breakdown of these numbers, the names of serving staff in my Department who had opted to move with my Department or who had expressed a wish to transfer to other decentralised locations. The most recent updated information was received on 15 February 2005, which included the names and other details of those who have expressed an interest in decentralising with my Department. This information indicates that the number of applicants from general Civil Service grades now stands at 157 with, in addition, nine applications from other Civil Service grades and ten from other public servants.

The grade breakdown for general civil servants is as follows: