Michael Lowry (Tipperary North, Independent)
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Question 124: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects the fixed charge unit to decentralise to Thurles; the progress to date on the unit's decentralisation to Thurles; the number of staff at each grade who have selected Thurles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39761/06]

Michael Lowry (Tipperary North, Independent)
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Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects elements of Garda headquarters to decentralise to Thurles; the progress to date on the unit's decentralisation to Thurles; the number of staff at each grade who have selected Thurles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39762/06]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 124 and 125 together.

Under the Government Programme, one hundred and fourteen posts are scheduled to decentralise from sections in Garda Headquarters to Thurles by the end of 2008. The Garda Central Vetting Unit commenced its operations in Thurles in November 2005 involving the transfer from Dublin of thirty-one posts. Another advance move is planned for the first half of 2007, when forty-three posts from the Fixed Charge Processing Unit will relocate to Thurles.

Under the Central Applications Facility, there are currently one hundred and thirty five applicants from both within my Department and from other Government Departments who have indicated Thurles as their priority location. The breakdown in grades is as follows:- five Assistant Principal Officers, seventeen Higher Executive Officers, one Administrative Officer, twenty-one Executive Officers, eleven Staff Officers and eighty Clerical Officers.