Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 294: To ask the Minister for Finance the status of and progress made in the planned decentralisation of an office of the Revenue Commissioners and debt management work from the Collector General's Office to Kilrush, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19138/05]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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In accordance with the Government's decentralisation programme the Revenue Commissioners will decentralise 50 posts to Kilrush. The decentralisation implementaion group, or DIG, which was established to drive forward the implementation of the programme requested all decentralising organisations to prepare and submit implementation plans.

I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that they have, as requested, prepared and submitted an implementation plan to the DIG for Kilrush and that this plan is being progressed.

An analysis of first preference applications from the central applications facility indicates that there are 65 applicants for Kilrush.

Internal information seminars with regard to the transfer of work from the Collector General's Office to the new locations in the mid-west region, which includes Kilrush, have been completed. Letters of offer for transfer to Kilrush were issued to staff on 10th June 2005. In relation to property acquisition, I understand that negotiations regarding a suitable location are ongoing with the Office of Public Works.