Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 130: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of posts decentralised to date as part of his Department's decentralisation programme; the location of the decentralised posts in each case; the corresponding number of posts that have been reduced from his Department's Dublin offices to date; and the overall net loss or gain in terms of post numbers as a result of the decentralisation of these posts. [19656/07]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Government's decentralisation programme, the Development Cooperation Directorate of the Department of Foreign Affairs, which is Irish Aid's Headquarters, will decentralise to Limerick. This is scheduled to be completed in early 2008, when the new premises will be ready for occupation. It will involve the relocation to Limerick of 124 Dublin-based posts. Good progress has been made and personnel have either been assigned to, or identified for, 101 posts or approximately 82% of the 124 scheduled to be decentralised.

An advance party, involving over 50 posts which were previously based in Dublin, has recently decentralised to interim office premises in Limerick. The decentralisation of these 124 posts will have a neutral effect in terms of overall numbers in the Department.