Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 741: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the number of civil servants in her Department who have transferred to offices outside Dublin under the decentralisation programme to date; the percentage of these who had a previous transfer within a two year period of the decentralisation transfer; the number of these 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 she will make a statement on the matter. [10523/07]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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To date, 200 civil servants have transferred to Portlaoise under my Department's decentralisation programme. 79 (or 40%) of these transferred to my Department via the Central Applications Facility (CAF), while the remainder were mainly internal transfers. To date, it has been my Department's practice to transfer non-Dublin based people directly to Portlaoise.