Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 102: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs his plans for the future location of the maintenance and recovery unit of his Department; the negotiations which have taken place with staff representatives; the options open to staff who do not wish to relocate; and the rationale for the relocation of jobs from the Finglas area in view of its high level of unemployment. [26156/05]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Government programme of decentralisation, it is proposed that all headquarter sections of the Department will relocate to six provincial locations; Drogheda, Carrick-on-Shannon, Sligo, Donegal town, Buncrana and Carrickmacross. As part of the Department's decentralisation implementation plan, the maintenance recovery section, which comprises some 16 posts and is currently located in Finglas, has been included in those sections of the Department designated to decentralise to Carrick-on-Shannon.

The Department's decentralisation liaison officer met staff of the area and their union representative to outline the process involved and to discuss the options available to staff who wish to remain in Dublin. Under the decentralisation programme, staff who are not decentralising will be facilitated with alternative assignments in Dublin. Further meetings with the staff are planned as the programme progresses.