Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 279: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of persons within each unit or State agency of his Department who have opted to move to the proposed new location for their unit; the number of other Dublin based employees of his Department who have opted to move to one of the decentralising units within his Department; the number of persons who have to date in 2005 been assigned to each of the decentralising units; and the number of persons who have opted not to move with their decentralising unit who have been reassigned or offered an alternative posting. [36739/05]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is due to decentralise all of its Dublin based headquarters sections to six locations throughout the country involving some 1,300 staff. It is scheduled to decentralise to Sligo and Carrick-on-Shannon early in 2007, to Carrickmacross in 2008 and to Drogheda, Donegal and Buncrana in 2009. In addition, the Combat Poverty Agency and Comhairle, agencies under the aegis of my Department, will be relocated to Monaghan and Drogheda respectively.

There are some 224 people who have opted to transfer with their unit, section or agency to the proposed new location. A total of 331 employees, currently serving in Dublin, have opted to move to one of the decentralising units, sections or agencies within my Department.

To date, 24 officers have been formally offered a transfer and assigned to each of the decentralising units, sections or agencies. A further 38 officers have accepted an offer under the decentralisation programme and are due to be re-assigned shortly. This has resulted in the re-assignment of 13 officers to an alternative post within my Department.