Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 591: To ask the Minister for Defence 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. [3205/08]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 592: To ask the Minister for Defence 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. [3220/08]

Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 591 and 592 together.

The Government Decision on decentralisation, announced by the Minister for Finance in his Budget Statement on 3 December 2003, provides for the transfer of my entire Department's Dublin based civil service staff to Newbridge, Co. Kildare. The number of posts to be relocated to Newbridge is about 200. Currently, 143 Newbridge bound staff are in their decentralising posts. Staff will not transfer to Newbridge until the construction of the Department's new headquarters is completed in 2009. In addition to the civil servants, 43 military personnel will be located in Newbridge. A further 335 military personnel together with 78 support staff will decentralise to the new Defence Forces Headquarters building in the Curragh Camp. 8 staff members have transferred under the CAF to my Department's offices in Renmore, Co Galway.

The Civil Defence Board, which is a State Authority under the aegis of the Department of Defence, transferred to its new purpose built Headquarters in Roscrea in May 2006 with a staff of 17. The Civil Defence Board in Roscrea currently has a complement of 24 staff. My Department has not incurred any non-property costs in relation to decentralisation to date.