Written answers
Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Decentralisation Programme
9:00 pm
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 440: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the non-property cost of decentralisation for each quarter since the project was initiated with regard to his Department's quarterly return to the Decentralisation Implementation Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3213/08]
Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Since the commencement of the Decentralisation programme in my Department, quarterly returns have been submitted to the Central Decentralisation Unit within the Department of Finance detailing expenditure under the heading of non-property costs.
The table below sets out the expenditure incurred by my Department since 2004 under the 5 subheads associated with non-property costs (the figure for Q4 2007 is provisional at this time). The total outturn for non-property costs for last year will be finalised very shortly and this will then be communicated to the Department of Finance.
| Table: Quarterly Breakdown of non-property costs for the Department of Social and Family Affairs | |||||||
| Subhead | A2 | A3 | A4 | A5 | A6 | A7 | |
| Subhead Description | Travel and Subsistence | Incidental Expenses | Postal & Telecom Expenses | Office Machinery & Other Office Supplies and Related Services | Office Premises | Consultancy Services | Total |
| € | € | € | € | € | € | € | |
| 2007 | |||||||
| Quarter 1 | 1,714 | 225 | — | 738 | — | — | 2,677 |
| Quarter 2 | 1,504 | — | 2,010 | — | — | — | 3,514 |
| Quarter 3 | 18,152 | — | — | — | — | — | 18,152 |
| Quarter 4* | 9,245 | — | — | — | — | — | 9,245 |
| TOTAL 2007 | 30,615 | 225 | 2,010 | 738 | — | — | 33,588 |
| 2006 | |||||||
| Quarter 1 | 5,425 | — | — | — | — | — | 5,425 |
| Quarter 2 | 3,384 | 829 | — | — | — | — | 4,213 |
| Quarter 3 | 5,769 | — | — | — | — | — | 5,769 |
| Quarter 4 | 2,099 | — | — | — | — | — | 2,099 |
| TOTAL 2006 | 16,677 | 829 | — | — | — | — | 17,506 |
| 2005 | |||||||
| Quarter 1 | 796 | — | 74 | — | — | — | 870 |
| Quarter 2 | 3,533 | 17 | 130 | 817 | — | 6,150 | 10,647 |
| Quarter 3 | 40 | — | — | 598 | — | — | 638 |
| Quarter 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| TOTAL 2005 | 4,369 | 17 | 204 | 1,415 | — | 6,150 | 12,155 |
| 2004 | |||||||
| TOTAL 2004 | 6,907 | 19 | 270 | 783 | — | 6,436 | 14,415 |
| GRAND TOTAL | 58,568 | 1,090 | 2,484 | 2,936 | — | 12,586 | 77,664 |
| *Q4 figures for 2007 provisional |
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 441: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of civil and public servants in his Department who have been decentralised to date; the number who will be decentralised in total under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3228/08]
Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Government's current decentralisation programme for the civil and public service, some 1,210 posts comprising this Department's headquarter sections and the Social Welfare Appeals Office are relocating to 6 locations – Sligo, Carrick-on-Shannon, Donegal, Buncrana, Carrickmacross and Drogheda. In addition, the Combat Poverty Agency is scheduled to relocate 25 posts to Monaghan and the Citizens Information Board is scheduled to relocate 47 posts to Drogheda under the programme.
To date, 177 posts have relocated from the Department's Dublin Offices to Carrick-on-Shannon and Sligo. In addition, the Department has decentralised offices in Longford, Sligo, Letterkenny, Waterford, Dundalk and Roscommon and some 170 employees have transferred to these offices and other offices of the Department to fill vacancies created by the current decentralisation programme.
Furthermore, a total of 205 employees of the Department have transferred to other Government Departments for the purposes of their decentralisation programmes.
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