Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 353: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress to date in relation to the decentralisation scheme on the securing of permanent office accommodation in a single unit at Portlaoise having regard to the fact that the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food officials have relocated, under the Government's decentralisation scheme to a number of offices in different parts of the town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19696/08]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The OPW announced late last year that a consortium, the Macquarie Partnership, has won the tender for the project to build the permanent offices in Portlaoise, Mullingar and Carlow (a design, finance, build and maintain contract). The planning permission process for the building in Portlaoise, which will accommodate over 800 staff, is underway. The site in Portlaoise is situated on the new orbital route, just off the Mountrath Road.