Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 549: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform 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. [24435/07]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 550: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform 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. [24449/07]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 549 and 550 together.

Under my Department's Decentralisation Programme, just over 900 civil service posts are scheduled to transfer to seven locations around the country. So far, two hundred and two people have been transferred from Dublin based posts. One hundred and thirty have transferred to Longford, 18 to Portarlington, nine to Thurles, six to Tipperary town, six to Roscrea and 33 to Roscommon. By the end of 2007, it is estimated that a further 80 civil servants will have relocated out of Dublin and just over 200 provincially based officers will also have moved to the above locations. In total, this represents around 50% of the overall number of posts scheduled to move under my Department's Programme.