Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 141: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the offices of his Department which are situated on the north side of Dublin; the locations where each of them are scheduled to relocate to under decentralisation and when; those that are not yet assigned a location; and those that will be retained in their present location. [32383/05]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Government's decentralisation programme all of the Department's headquarters sections based in Dublin are due to relocate to six locations throughout the country — Sligo, Carrick-on-Shannon, Drogheda, Donegal, Buncrana and Carrickmacross. The headquarters offices on the north side of Dublin city are: Áras Mhic Diarmada, Store Street, Dublin 1; Gandon House, Amiens Street, Dublin 1; 16 Parnell Square, Dublin 1; and Print and Stores, Shanowen Road, Santry.

The Department has a number of local offices on the north side of Dublin, including Ballymun, Blanchardstown, Coolock, Kilbarrack, Navan Road and North Cumberland Street. There is a local and regional office in Finglas and a social welfare inspectorate office in Malahide. One headquarter section is accommodated in Finglas.

Decentralisation to Sligo and Carrick-on-Shannon is scheduled to be completed in 2007. Decentralisation to Carrickmacross is scheduled for the end of 2008, and to Drogheda, Donegal and Buncrana for 2009. Final decisions on sections relocating to Sligo and Carrick-on-Shannon have been made and involve a number of sections based both on the northside and southside of the city. No final decisions have been taken on sections to be relocated to the other decentralisation locations.

When the programme is complete all headquarters sections in Dublin will have been relocated. There are no plans to relocate local or regional offices from Dublin.