Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 122: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs 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. [26475/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Government's current decentralisation programme for the civil and public service, some 1,200 posts comprising the Department's headquarter sections and the Social Welfare Appeals Office are relocating to 6 locations — Sligo, Carrick-on-Shannon, Donegal Town, Buncrana, Carrickmacross and Drogheda. In addition, the Combat Poverty Agency (CPA) and Citizens Information Board (CIB) are scheduled to relocate to Monaghan and Drogheda, respectively, under the programme.

To date, 207 posts have relocated from the Department's Dublin Offices to Carrick-on-Shannon and Sligo — 135 posts to Carrick-on-Shannon which represents 60% of the original target and 72 posts to Sligo which represents 72% of the original target. In addition, the Department has decentralised offices in Longford, Sligo, Letterkenny, Waterford, Dundalk and Roscommon and some 210 employees have transferred to these offices and other offices of the Department to fill vacancies created by the current decentralisation programme. Furthermore, a total of 238 employees of the Department have transferred to other Government Departments for the purposes of their decentralisation programmes.

The following table outlines the data requested: