Written answers

Tuesday, 24 June 2008

Department of Finance

Decentralisation Programme

10:00 pm

Photo of Thomas ByrneThomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 130: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the progress made and the future plans on the decentralisation programme in respect of Navan. [24835/08]

Photo of Brian Lenihan JnrBrian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I have been advised by the Revenue Commissioners that Revenue's Navan office was not part of the original decentralisation programme announced by the then Minister for Finance, Mr Charlie McCreevy, in his budget speech in 2002. The then Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners subsequently submitted a proposal to the Decentralisation Implementation Group formally requesting approval to relocate up to one hundred (100) additional posts from Dublin to Navan in order to establish the Revenue Meath district there. This proposal was approved by the Government in 2006. There are currently ninety seven (97) of the one hundred (100) staff due to decentralise in situ in Navan and arrangements are in train to fill the remaining three (3) positions. This will complete Revenue's decentralisation programme to Navan. My Department has no plans at present to decentralise any additional staff to Navan.

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