Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 868: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the individual current and capital budgets allocated by Government, whether through the Office of Public Works or through departmental and agency budgets, for the provision of new office accommodation for agencies and Departments (details supplied) as part of the decentralisation programme; the status of the process of securing new office accommodation for these agencies and Departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23585/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The position is that four of the offices to which the Deputy refers are included in my Department's decentralisation programme. The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner moved to temporary offices in Portarlington in December 2006 and the Irish Prison Service has been operating in its new headquarters in Longford since July 2007. The Equality Authority opened a temporary office in Roscrea in May 2007 and an advance move of the Equality Tribunal to Portlaoise is planned for later this year. As the Deputy will be aware, under the decentralisation programme, the allocation of overall capital funding for the provision of new office accommodation is a matter for the Office of Public Works.