Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick East, Fine Gael)
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Question 153: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment 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. [16129/08]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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My Department is required to relocate 250 posts to Carlow under the Government's Decentralisation Programme and this is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2009. In order to accommodate staff who wished to move earlier than the projected building completion date of late 2009, officials of my Department, in consultation with the Department of Finance and the OPW, as well as decentralising staff and Business Units, opened an advance office in Carlow on July 30th 2007. There are currently 99 staff in place in this advance office. Three of these officers transferred from Dublin since 1st January 2008.