Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 478: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the non-property cost of decentralisation for each quarter since the project was initiated with regard to her Department's quarterly return to the Decentralisation Implementation Group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3201/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The returns to the Decentralisation Implementation Group for the non-property costs of the move to Portlaoise are as follows.

These costs are the extended extra costs that are directly attributable to the decentralisation programme and do not include expenses that would have been incurred in the normal course of the Department's operations.

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 479: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of civil and public servants in her Department who have been decentralised to date; the number who will be decentralised in total under the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3216/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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To the end of December 2007, 253 civil servants have decentralised to my Department's offices in Portlaoise and 80 civil servants have decentralised to my Department's offices in Clonakilty.

The Government decision on the decentralisation of my Department is that the headquarters will move to Portlaoise involving some 600 staff; the local offices in Cork city will move to Fermoy involving some 100 staff; the laboratories in Cork and Limerick will move to Macroom involving up to 100 staff. The Fisheries move to Clonakilty is now substantially complete.