Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 256: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of civil servants who have transferred to offices outside Dublin under the decentralisation programme to date; the percentage of those who had a previous transfer within a two year period of the decentralisation transfer; the number of those people who transferred from a non-Dublin office to a Dublin office in the initial transfer; the average time spent in the Dublin office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6075/07]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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One Hundred and twelve (112) staff of the Department of Finance have decentralised to Tullamore and a further eleven (11) have accepted offers of decentralisation. Of those in Tullamore, ninety-one (91) moved to my Department to decentralise to Tullamore. The data available in my Department on the previous careers of these staff do not indicate in all cases the previous locations of staff or whether or not they had an earlier transfer within a two year period of the decentralisation transfer. However, nineteen (19) of these staff came to Dublin for training prior to moving to Tullamore. The total time spent in Dublin was six hundred and seventeen weeks (617), giving an average period of thirty two (32) weeks.

The data in relation to the agencies under the aegis of my Department are not currently available and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.