Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 274: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will present in tabular form the progress at the end of 2007 in respect of units or agencies under his Department which are due to decentralise, showing, in respect of each the number of posts to be decentralised, the number who have moved to the new location, the number who have been assigned to the decentralised post but have not moved, the number of staff who have been assigned who are new recruits and the number who have opted to stay in Dublin who have been assigned to other posts within Dublin. [5307/08]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Government's current decentralisation programme for the civil and public service, some 1,200 posts comprising the 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 (CPA) and Citizens Information Board (CIB) are scheduled to relocate to Monaghan and Drogheda, respectively, under the programme.

To date, 177 posts have relocated from the Department's Dublin Offices to Carrick-on-Shannon and Sligo. A further 32 posts will decentralise from the during 2008 — 27 posts to Carrick-on-Shannon and 5 posts to 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 206 employees of the Department have transferred to other Government Departments for the purposes of their decentralisation programmes.

The table below outlines the data requested: