Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 356: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht 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. [30241/07]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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To date, 73 officers from my Department have transferred to an interim location in Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo. Of those, 42 officers transferred from posts in Dublin. It is planned to fill a further 30 posts in Tubbercurry early in 2008 and it is envisaged that the majority of those officers will be transferring from posts outside Dublin.

10 officers are in place in Na Forbacha, Galway, fulfilling the Department's commitment in that location. 5 of the officers in question transferred from Dublin posts.

Pobal have filled 24 posts in Clifden, Co. Galway. The posts concerned were in respect of new business and all posts, except 1, were filled by way of local recruitment. Pobal plans to fill a further 6 posts in Clifden in 2008 by means of local recruitment.