Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 98: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if it is intended to proceed with the decentralisation of FÁS to Birr, County Offaly, especially in view of the recent expansion of its head office in Dublin to a new floor to accommodate 60 additional staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31152/07]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Government's decentralisation programme, FÁS is due to transfer its head office, including some 383 staff, to Birr, Co Offaly. This remains the case. The staff referred to by the Deputy work in the FÁS Services to Business Section (STB) and had moved some years ago from Baggot Street to temporary accommodation in Kilmainham. The back section of FÁS' building in Baggot Street has been sub-let but the tenant no longer requires the first floor of this section and it has reverted to FÁS. This has facilitated the return of the STB section to Baggot Street.