Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 369: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform 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. [36743/05]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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Under the Government's decentralisation programme, close to 1,000 posts from nine agencies under the aegis of my Department will transfer to seven different locations around the country.

The latest figures from the central applications facility indicate that out of an overall total of 819 applications for these posts, 53 are from people who are currently working in the decentralising organisations themselves. There are an additional 65 applications from within the Department as a whole.

To date there have been a total of 105 people who have accepted formal offers to decentralise with the organisations concerned but in some cases they have not yet moved into the actual posts. In addition, there have been 25 reassignments involving people who have opted not to move to the decentralised location. The central applications facility remains open and these figures are, therefore, subject to change.