Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 286: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 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. [36021/07]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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To the end of November, 183 civil servants have transferred from Dublin to my Department's offices in Portlaoise. An additional 70 civil servants were assigned to Portlaoise from outside of Dublin. There are 82 civil servants in my Department's offices in Dublin assigned for decentralisation to Portlaoise.

Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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Question 287: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position in relation to plans to decentralise 300 personnel from her Department to Mullingar; if a decision has been made to facilitate an advance number of approximately 100 who wish to decentralise immediately once temporary accommodation is provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35659/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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This month Office of Public Works has announced further progress towards the provision of permanent accommodation in Mullingar for my Department in that it has just invited a consortium to become the successful tenderer for a decentralisation accommodation project to include Mullingar.

To date no decision has been taken as to whether a number of posts will be located into temporary accommodation in Mullingar in advance of the full decentralisation of 300 posts into the new permanent accommodation. As I have previously indicated, the issue is re-examined from time to time.

The relocation of posts in my Department from Dublin to Athlone will take place next year, so my Department will be relocating 400 posts from Dublin into new permanent accommodation in Athlone and Mullingar over a period of approximately 2 years. The capacity of my Department to manage its business if this process is accelerated by sending an advance number of posts to temporary accommodation in Mullingar is a major consideration in deciding whether it is appropriate to relocate a number of posts into temporary accommodation in Mullingar in advance of the full move of 300 posts into the new permanent accommodation.