Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 350: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of civil servants based in Dublin who have applied for decentralisation, who have been transferred to their decentralising post and are 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. [30249/07]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Government's decentralisation programme for the civil and public service, the Department's headquarter sections and the Social Welfare Appeals Office are relocating to 6 locations — Sligo, Carrick-on-Shannon, Donegal, Buncrana, Carrickmacross and Drogheda. In addition, the Combat Poverty Agency and Citizens Information Board are scheduled to relocate to Monaghan and Drogheda, respectively, under the programme.

Since the introduction of the Central Application Facility (CAF) in May 2004, 1,812 employees of the Department have applied to decentralise, of whom 729 are based in Dublin. A total of 521 employees in the Department have transferred into their decentralising posts, 360 of whom are Dublin based. Some 340 employees have already relocated with the Department to their new decentralised location, of whom, 174 were Dublin based. The following table outlines the data requested.

In addition to the above, 188 employees of the Department have transferred to other Government Departments under the programme of decentralisation, of whom 88 were Dublin based employees.