Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 406: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the office or unit within his Department and associated unit that is 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 organisation; and the number of people willing to move who have been assigned their new posts. [6670/06]

John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)
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My Department, with the exception of the National Archives, will be transferring to Killarney under the Government's decentralisation programme. The number of first preference applications received under the central applications facility for approximately 130 posts exceeds the numbers required in the case of most of the grades.

The following table shows the number of internal and external assignments that have been made to posts in the Department that are decentralising to Killarney. Those who have been assigned already are officers who had Killarney as their first preference location on the central applications facility.

Three of my Department's agencies have also been selected to decentralise; the Sports Council to Killarney, Fáilte Ireland to Mallow and the Arts Council to Kilkenny. These agencies were not identified as early movers. The following tables show details of staff who have been assigned in order to relocate to the designated locations.