Brian O'Shea (Waterford, Labour)
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Question 233: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of staff decentralising to Dungarvan that are included in the over 2,100 staff who have already been reassigned to decentralising posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40425/06]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The following gives the position in relation to Dungarvan. I understand my colleague the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government will answer in respect of his own areas of responsibility. The figure of 2,100 is the number of assignments to decentralising posts reported to the Central Decentralisation Unit up to end August 2006.

While this figure does not contain any staff assigned to decentralise with OSI to Dungarvan, I am informed by Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI) that 16 staff of the OSI have chosen to decentralise to Dungarvan with the OSI and that as part of the OSI's ongoing recruitment processes, a further 54 staff have been recruited since the initial decentralisation announcement on the basis that they will decentralise to Dungarvan. Forty-five staff from other Department/Agencies have also applied on CAF to move to Dungarvan.