Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick East, Fine Gael)
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Question 167: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of new persons transferred from Dublin under the decentralisation programme since 1 January 2008; and the number of persons transferred under this programme as at the current date. [16134/08]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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To date, under the current programme, 192 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 a further 195 employees have transferred to these offices and other offices of the Department, to fill vacancies created by the current decentralisation programme. Since 1st January 2008, 12 posts have relocated from the Department's Dublin Offices to Carrick-on-Shannon and Sligo of which 1 was filled by a Dublin based employee. A further 17 posts will also relocate to Carrick-on-Shannon in the coming weeks of which 2 are filled by Dublin based employees. Furthermore, a total of 225 employees of the Department have transferred to other Government Departments for the purposes of their decentralisation programme.