Seymour Crawford (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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Question 366: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of personnel employed in her Department office in Cavan on 1 January 2000; the number there are at the present time; the efforts been made to find alternative work in these offices as some work has ended as a result of single payment scheme and other work has been transferred out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23527/06]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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There were 203 staff working in my Department's Cavan Office on 1 January 2000. Currently, two hundred and twenty eight people work in my Department's office in Cavan, including 57 job sharing staff. These staff are fully engaged in work on Accounts, Legal and Land Services, Livestock Breeding, Integrated Controls, BSE, Scrapie Medicines, District Veterinary Operations, Feed Fertiliser Grain Pigs and Poultry, Beef and Sheepmeat and on the residual processing of the old coupled livestock payment schemes. However, the Department does foresee some changes to the work areas in Cavan arising over the next months into 2007. Overall this will result in a net decrease of up to 25 staff in Cavan or approximately 10%. This will occur through natural wastage and the transfer of staff to offices in other Departments in Cavan.