Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 422: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the decentralisation of FÁS to Birr; the number of staff already decentralised; the numbers yet to be decentralised and the timetable for this; the status of property acquisition and the cost involved; when the property will be ready for occupation; the numbers which it will cater for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3830/08]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Government's decentralisation programme, FÁS is to transfer its Head Office, including some 383 staff, to Birr, Co Offaly by 2009.

FÁS currently has 21 members of staff based in Birr who are working out of leased offices located within the Birr Technology Centre. In the meantime FÁS has recently completed the purchase of a site of approximately 5.59 acres in Birr at a cost of €1.537 million in connection with the building of a permanent decentralised location. An application for planning permission is currently being prepared and will be submitted in due course.