Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 104: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of persons who have been moved by his Department and its agencies to date; the percentage this represents of the original target; and if he will provide in tabular form for each of the locations, the staff who have been moved, the staff who have been assigned but not moved and the number of the staff originally designated for a move, who have opted to stay in Dublin, who have been assigned new duties. [26472/08]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Government's decentralisation programme, the Development Cooperation Directorate of the Department of Foreign Affairs, which is Irish Aid's Headquarters, is decentralising to Limerick. Following sanction by the Department of Finance of additional posts for DCD, the total number of posts decentralising to Limerick has increased from the original figure of 124 agreed by Government to 138.

Good progress has been made and personnel have either been assigned to, or identified for, 112 posts or approximately 81% of the 138 posts scheduled to transfer to Limerick. The remaining 26 posts largely comprise the Development Specialist grades. The recent agreement involving the trade union IMPACT and the Departments of Finance and Foreign Affairs, provide a basis upon which the Development Specialist grades will transfer to the new Irish Aid headquarters in Limerick.

An advance party has already decentralised to interim office premises in Limerick, with 60 officers currently in place. It is expected that the remaining staff of Irish Aid will transfer to Limerick between now and autumn 2008, on completion and fit-out of the new permanent offices.

The detailed information requested by the Deputy in regard to the 112 posts currently assigned to, or identified for, Irish Aid in Limerick is conveyed in tabular format: