Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 427: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources 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. [36022/07]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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The Government's decentralisation programme provides for the relocation of my Department's headquarters to Cavan and the relocation of two bodies under its aegis, namely Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI) to Dundalk and the Central Fisheries Board (CFB) to Carrick-on-Shannon.

43 staff members from my Department have relocated as an advance party to Cavan and of these, 38 were originally based in Dublin. A further 20 staff members are 'in post' in Dublin, pending planned decentralisation to Cavan, which is currently scheduled for end 2009.

As regards SEI, temporary accommodation has very recently been acquired in Dundalk pending a permanent move and thus far two persons have located in the decentralised location. Neither has transferred from a location outside Dublin or in post.

In relation to the CFB no person has transferred to the proposed decentralised location as yet.