Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)
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Question 375: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of staff in his Department who have indicated a willingness to decentralise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36557/06]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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There are currently 235 staff in my Department who have indicated a willingness to decentralise under the Government Decentralisation Programme. 109 of these staff have applied to decentralise to Carlow with my Department. The remaining 126 staff from my Department are awaiting assignment to decentralising posts in other Departments.

26 staff from my Department have already been assigned to decentralising posts in other Departments. There are 78 Carlow-bound applicants awaiting assignment to my Department from other Departments.