Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 596: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government 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. [24432/07]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 597: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government 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. [24446/07]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 596 and 597 together.

Under the decentralisation programme, all Dublin based operations of my Department are being decentralised, with the exception of Met Éireann, ENFO, the Private Rented Tenancies Board and a small co-ordination section which it is proposed to retain in Dublin to assist with the Department's Dáil and other business. A total of 682 Dublin based posts will be transferred to four locations in the South East: Wexford (270 posts); Waterford (225 posts); New Ross (125 posts) and Kilkenny (62 posts).

As outlined in the most recent Progress Report (July 2007) from the Decentralisation Implementation Group, published on 8 October 2007, the indicative timescales for the completion of the Department's offices in Wexford, Kilkenny, New Ross and Waterford are Quarter 3 2008, Quarter 4 2009, Quarter 2 2010 and Quarter 3 2010 respectively. My Department has established an advance office in Ardcavan, Wexford staffed by 39 people. This has been operational since 25 June 2007. Of the 39 staff, 38 staff transferred from an original Dublin-based location. No further significant staff transfers to any of the Department's four locations will take place by the end of 2007.