Michael Lowry (Tipperary North, Independent)
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Question 493: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of persons who have requested transfers to Roscrea under the decentralisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13067/05]

Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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The Government decision on decentralisation announced by the Minister for Finance in his Budget Statement on 3 December 2003 provides for the transfer of my Department's Dublin based Civil Service staff to Newbridge, County Kildare, and also provides for the transfer of Defence Forces headquarters staff to the Curragh, County Kildare.

As the Deputy will be aware, it was in the context of the White Paper on Defence, that the Government decided, on 29 February 2000, to decentralise the Civil Defence branch of my Department to Roscrea, County Tipperary. To date, there have been approximately 100 applicants for transfer to Roscrea.