Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 137: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment 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. [19653/07]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has been making good progress in the relocation of the required 250 posts to Carlow under the Government's Decentralisation Programme. Officials of my Department, in consultation with the Department of Finance and the OPW, as well as decentralising staff and Business Units, are finalising arrangements for an advance move to Carlow ahead of the substantive move scheduled for 2009. Approximately 100 staff, i.e. 63 staff from the National Employment Rights Authority (NERA), 33 staff from a division within the Companies Registration Office (CRO), along with a small number of support staff, are scheduled to decentralise with effect from Monday 30th July 2007, on a voluntary basis. The posts in NERA and the CRO mentioned above are part of the Department's current staffing level and there will be no loss or gain in terms of overall post numbers as a result of decentralisation to Carlow.