Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 338: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of civil servants based in Dublin who have applied for decentralisation, who have been transferred to their decentralising post and are actually in position in the decentralised location outside of Dublin; and the locations and the number of civil servants transferred from a Dublin post who are at such locations. [24431/07]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 339: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of civil servants and other public servants who have relocated to locations outside of Dublin under the Government's decentralisation programme; the estimated number of each category who will have relocated by the end of 2007; if he will break each set of figures down in terms of those who are relocating from Dublin and relocating from elsewhere; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24445/07]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 338 and 339 together.

My Department is required to relocate 250 posts to Carlow under the Government's Decentralisation Programme and this is planned to occur by the end of 2009. In order to accommodate staff who wished to move earlier than the projected building completion date of late 2009, officials of my Department, in consultation with the Department of Finance and the OPW, as well as decentralising staff and Business Units, opened an advance office in Carlow on July 30th 2007.

The number of posts in this decentralised advance office is 98. No change is expected in this number before the end of 2007. Of the staff in place in this office, 36 were decentralised from locations outside Dublin with the remainder decentralised from Dublin. The number of posts in Business Units decentralising to Carlow is 288. As well as the 98 posts already decentralised to Carlow, my Department has 47 staff due to decentralise in the substantive move scheduled for 2009, with a further 40 Carlow-bound applicants yet to be assigned from other Departments. It is hoped to have all decentralising posts filled in sufficient time to ensure that staff are adequately trained in advance of the move to Carlow. Ninety-nine staff currently in my Department have applied to decentralise with other Departments. Of these staff, 16 are based outside of Dublin.