Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 212: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of persons who have opted to remain in Dublin who have been reassigned from decentralising offices; and the numbers who remain to be assigned. [20316/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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There are approximately 400 Dublin-based staff that have not applied for decentralisation. 127 of these have applied to the Public Appointments Service Dublin List to be reassigned in Dublin. To date, 5 have been reassigned. A number of the Dublin-based staff have expressed an interest in relocating to Backweston, Co. Kildare, to which 70 posts are to be relocated.

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 213: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the date on which it is expected that each of the decentralisation moves within her Department or of agencies under her Department will be completed. [20330/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The Government decision on the decentralisation of this Department is that our headquarters will move to Portlaoise, the local office in Cork city will move to Fermoy and the laboratories in Cork and Limerick will move to Macroom. An Bord Bia is scheduled to relocate to Enniscorthy. The Decentralisation Implementation Group's report of June 2005 indicated the following timeframe for completion of my Department's decentralisation moves: Portlaoise end 2008, Fermoy and Macroom early 2009. An Bord Bia was not included in the list of organisations to be included in the first phase of the government's decentralisation programme. The Decentralisation Implementation Group has not included a specific timeframe for the completion of the Bord Bia move.

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 214: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the posts of specialist skill which are planned for removal under the decentralisation move; and the number of those who have indicated a willingness to move their posts within units of and agencies under her Department. [20344/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The Government decision on the decentralisation of this Department is that its headquarters will move to Portlaoise, the local office in Cork city will move to Fermoy and the laboratories in Cork and Limerick will move to Macroom. Some 50 headquarters staff in specialist grades are due to be located in Portlaoise. Staff are currently being assigned to 18 of these posts and the filling of the remainder of these posts is in train. The following table shows the number of posts as published on the Central Applications Facility and the number of my Department's specialist staff in Macroom and Fermoy who have applied to relocate:

With regard to An Bord Bia, 46 of the 67 Bord Bia posts scheduled for transfer to Enniscorthy are classified as specialist and of these, 21 have indicated a willingness to transfer to Enniscorthy.