Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 649: To ask the Minister for Defence 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. [6678/06]

Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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The Government decision on decentralisation, announced by the Minister for Finance in his budget statement on 3 December 2003, provides for the transfer of all of my Department's Dublin based Civil Service staff to Newbridge, County Kildare. The number of staff to be relocated to Newbridge is 200. The Government decision also provides for the transfer of 300 Defence Forces headquarters staff to the Curragh, County Kildare.

The following table details the number of staff in my Department who have chosen to decentralise with my Department to Newbridge.

In addition to the staff referred to in the table above, four civil servants have been assigned to their new posts with my Department via the central applications facility, CAF, thus far and we are currently in the process of transferring staff from other Departments into my Department.