Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 287: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has ascertained from all public service agencies involved in decentralisation the make-up of the 2,800 people who have taken up posts due to decentralise; the number of these who are transferring with their post from Dublin, who are transferring upon promotion and who are new recruits; and if he will set out the relevant data. [24679/07]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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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. 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 to Carlow in the substantive move scheduled for 2009. Of these staff, five are based outside Dublin. Seven officers within my Department accepted promotion offers to posts scheduled to decentralise to Carlow. There are currently eleven officers who were assigned as new recruits to my Department to take up posts scheduled to decentralise to Carlow.