Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 654: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the decentralisation of the Land Registry to Roscommon; 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. [3833/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Under my Department's Decentralisation Programme, two hundred and thirty posts from the Property Registration Authority are scheduled to transfer from Dublin to Roscommon. An advance move to temporary office accommodation in Roscommon took place in August 2006. There are now seventy-four officers serving in that office with plans to increase this number to ninety by the end of March 2008.

I understand that the purchase of a site in Roscommon for the permanent accommodation was completed in 2007 at a cost of €3m. The Office of Public Works, who are charged with the responsibility of providing the accommodation, are currently in the process of examining tenders in respect of the construction of the permanent office building. It is anticipated that the offices will be ready for occupation by the two hundred and thirty staff by the end of 2009/early 2010.

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 655: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of the decentralisation of the Prison Service headquarters to Longford; 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. [3834/08]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the Headquarters of the Irish Prison Service opened for business in Longford in July 2007. One hundred and forty one posts have moved from Dublin to Longford, one hundred and sixteen officers are currently working there and work is continuing on the transfer of the remaining twenty-five prison and technical posts. Twenty contract I.T. staff are also based there.

I understand that the cost of the site in Longford was €576,000. The building is designed to accommodate both the Irish Prison Service H.Q. and a subsidiary office of the Garda Ombudsman Commission. Overall the property will accommodate around two hundred people with an inbuilt provision for an increase of 10% on that number.