Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 153: To ask the Minister for Social and Family 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. [19659/07]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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To date, under the Government's programme of decentralisation, 128 posts have relocated from the Department's Dublin offices. 66 posts have decentralised to Sligo and 62 posts to Carrick-on-Shannon.

All 128 posts have relocated from Dublin with their respective business units to either Sligo or Carrick-on-Shannon, thus decreasing the number of posts in the Department's Dublin offices by 128. There is no overall net loss or gain in the number of posts in the Department as a result of these posts decentralising.