Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 443: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will detail, providing in each case the full postal address, of each section of his Department, each State, semi-State body and agency under the aegis of his Department, which has moved or is due to move from Dublin under the Government's decentralisation programme; the number of staff based there prior to decentralisation; the number of staff that will be based there post decentralisation; and in respect of each building, the intended use it will be put to once decentralisation is complete. [7749/07]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department's headquarters is due to decentralise in full from Dún Aimhirgín, 43-49 Mespil Road, Dublin 4 to Knock Airport and Na Forbacha, Galway. A total of some 150 posts are involved in the move. It will be a matter for the Office of Public Works to decide how the building in Mespil Road will be used after decentralisation.

As a precursor to the move to Knock Airport, 70 posts have been relocated to temporary rented offices at Teeling Street, Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo which opened in July 2006. To date 9 posts have also relocated to Na Forbacha, Galway.

Pobal have assigned 23 posts to Milliner Buildings, Clifden, Co. Galway. As the posts concerned were in respect of new business, all staff except for 1 post were recruited locally and there are no implications for office space currently used in Dublin.

Foras na Gaeilge is based in Merrion Square, Dublin 2. The decentralisation of 30 posts to Gaoth Dobhar is still at the planning stage and no staff have moved as yet. In the circumstances, it is not possible to say what implications this has for the office space currently in use.