Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 416: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the Department which will be re-locating to Carrick-on-Shannon under the Government's decentralisation scheme; the number of personnel expected to transfer; when such a move is expected to occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32600/06]

David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
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Question 418: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs when it is anticipated phase two of decentralisation is expected to commence in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim. [32619/06]

Marian Harkin (Sligo-Leitrim, Independent)
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Question 423: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the timeframe for the decentralisation of 220 jobs to Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim under phase two of the decentralisation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32828/06]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take 416, 418 and 423 together.

In December 2003, as part of the Government's announcement of the new Decentralisation Programme, it was decided that 220 posts would be decentralised from my Department to Carrick-on-Shannon.

The construction and fit-out of a building is underway and is expected to be ready for occupation in the first quarter of 2007. This building will accommodate some 130 posts and the Department is pressing ahead with the plans for moving these posts as early as possible in 2007. Arrangements to move the additional posts to Carrick-on-Shannon will be made in the context of delivering subsequent phases of the decentralisation programme.