Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 313: To ask the Minister for Finance the offices or units within his Department and associated units that are due to be decentralised; the number of posts and staff in tabular form from each unit within his Department and associated agency who have chosen to decentralise with their parent organisations; and the number of people willing to move who have been assigned their new posts. [6667/06]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The details of the number of posts decentralising under the programme of decentralisation announced by the Government in December 2003 are published on the central application facility at www.publicjobs.ie. For my Department and bodies under its aegis, the locations, number of posts decentralising, the number of staff within the decentralising business units who have chosen to decentralise with their own organisations and the number of staff who have been assigned to date are set out in the following table.

The Deputy should note that the figures included in the table are subject to change as further assignments under the decentralisation programme are made. The table does not include applicants who have accepted offers to transfer but have not yet been assigned, for example, in the case of the Revenue Commissioners, 50 people have accepted offers of transfer to Kilrush, 48 people have accepted offers of transfer to Newcastle West and 51 people have accepted offers of transfer to Listowel. I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that there were 81 internal applicants for Kildare and 86 internal applicants for Athy, including the 65 and 27, respectively, in the business units decentralising to those locations. No formal offers have yet been made for these locations.