Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 727: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of specialist staff due to decentralise to each identified decentralisation location for her Department and its agencies; the number who have decentralised to each location to date; the number of specialist staff within her Department who have indicated a wish to decentralise to each of the identified locations to date; the number of specialist staff from other Departments who have indicated a wish to decentralise to each location identified for her Department's decentralisation to date; the way it is intended to deal with any shortfall in specialist staff wishing to decentralise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34059/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Two specialist posts in my Department are scheduled to relocate to Athlone. None of the specialist staff in my Department have indicated a wish to decentralise to Athlone and there are no suitably qualified staff in other departments who have expressed a wish to decentralise to Athlone to these posts.

Twenty six (26) specialist posts in my Department are scheduled to relocate to Mullingar. Nine (9) members of the specialist staff of my Department have indicated a wish to decentralise with these posts and one suitably qualified member of the staff of another organisation has indicated a wish to decentralise to Mullingar. It is envisaged that it should be possible to fill these posts through recruitment arising as the result of normal staff turnover throughout the period of the roll out of the programme of decentralisation.

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 728: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the status of the decentralisation programme in each agency under the aegis of her Department to date; the number of staff in each agency due to decentralise to each identified location; the number who have decentralised to each location to date; the number of staff within each agency who have indicated a wish to decentralise to each of the identified locations to date; the number of staff from other Departments or agencies who have indicated a wish to decentralise to each location identified for her Department's agencies decentralisation to date; the timeline for further decentralisation of agencies under the aegis of her Department. [34060/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The agencies under the aegis of my Department that will decentralise under the programme of decentralisation are the National Education Welfare Board (Portarlington), the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (Portarlington), the Higher Education Authority (Athlone), the National Qualifications Authority of Ireland (Edenderry), the Higher Education and Training Awards Council (Edenderry) and the Further Education and Training Awards Council (Edenderry). I am arranging for each of these agencies to provide me an update on their current progress towards decentralisation to include the detail requested by the Deputy. I will provide this directly to the deputy as soon as it is available.