Written answers
Thursday, 3 July 2008
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Decentralisation Programme
5:00 am
Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 111: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons who have been moved by her Department and its agencies to date; the percentage this represents of the original target; and if she 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 staff originally designated for a move but who opted to stay in Dublin who have been assigned new duties. [26469/08]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The information the Deputy requested is contained in the following table:
| Dept/Agency | Location | Target as per Government Decision | Decentralised | % of original target | Assigned not moved | Opted to stay in Dublin |
| Enterprise, Trade & Employment | Carlow | A minimum of 250 | 101 | 40.4% | 49 | n/a |
| National Consumer Agency | Cork | 80 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| NSAI | Arklow | 123 | 0 | 0% | 10 | 113 |
| FÁS | Birr, Co Offaly | 400 | 23 | 5.75% | 61 | 316 |
| Enterprise Ireland (EI) | Shannon | 300 | 0 | 0 | n/a | n/a |
| Health and Safety Authority (HAS) | Thomastown (The HSA currently has an interim office in Kilkenny city housing 25 staff) | 110 | 25 | 23% | 25 | 60 |
In the case of the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority (IAASA), a decision was made prior to its establishment that it would be located in Naas, Co Kildare. Having been established in December 2005 it moved to new offices at Naas, in January 2006. All IAASA staff have been based in its offices in Naas since its establishment, and as such the Authority is fully decentralised.
In parallel with the decentralisation process, as recently outlined by the Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment in the Dáil, Enterprise Ireland has been strengthening its regional focus in recent years and now has a major new presence in the Shannon Region in addition to its eight other regional offices. EI now has a major presence in the Shannon region. EI has established its new National Regional Development Headquarters in Shannon and has established the County Enterprise Support Unit in Shannon.
Currently there are 40 staff working in our Shannon office and it is expected that approximately 65 EI staff will be in place in Shannon over the coming months. A senior manager has been appointed as Head of Regions and Entrepreneurship to oversee the establishment of the EI presence in the Mid-West Region. EI managers with responsibility for the County Enterprise Co-ordination Unit and EI Regional Development strategy as well as the Regional Director with responsibility for the Mid West Regional are now in place in our Shannon office. As part of EI's regional strategy, these six posts were assigned to the new office in Shannon from Dublin. EI has leased high-spec office space in Westpark, Shannon, to accommodate this new Regional HQ.
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