Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 224: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of civil servants now in place at each decentralisation location in respect of the decentralisation proposals for the Department of Finance and the Office of Public Works; the number of civil servants who have moved to their new Department pending transfer to the decentralised location; the number of existing, serving civil servants in each of these sections who have opted for decentralisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7460/06]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Under the decentralisation programme announced by Government in December 2003, there are 131 staff of my Department due to decentralise to Tullamore from July 2006 and 33 staff due to decentralise to Kildare. The number of civil servants who have moved to my Department pending transfer and the number of staff in my Department who have chosen to move are as follows:

I am informed by the Office of Public Works that, under the decentralisation programme, there are 349 staff due to decentralise to Trim, 150 staff to Claremorris and 100 staff to Kanturk. The information requested by the Deputy is as follows:

The Deputy should note that the figures included in the tables above are subject to change as further assignments under the decentralisation programme are made.