Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 247: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the number to date of civil servants and employees of State bodies transferred from Dublin to decentralised locations; the number transferred from outside of Dublin to other decentralised locations; and the number transferred in post to decentralising Departments in Dublin pending planned decentralisation to locations outside of Dublin. [36020/07]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Government's Decentralisation Programme, the number of civil servants who have transferred from Dublin to my Department's decentralised office at Fossa, Killarney, Co Kerry currently stands at 24.

The number of civil servants who have transferred from locations outside of Dublin, i.e. provincial locations, to my Department's temporary accommodation at Fossa currently stands at 46. The number of civil servants in my Department in posts in Dublin pending decentralisation to Killarney currently stands at 10.

To date, no employees of State bodies under the aegis of my Department have transferred to their designated decentralisation locations.