Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 140: To ask the Taoiseach 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. [26635/08]

Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy will be aware that the Central Applications Facility is responsible for staff moves under the Department of Finance Decentralisation Programme. There are no proposals to decentralise my Department or any of the bodies under its aegis. I am advised by the Public Appointments Service that 42 staff currently serving in my Department have applied through the Central Applications Facility to relocate under the Decentralisation Programme.

21 former members of staff have already been transferred to other Departments for assignment to decentralised posts. It is a matter for those Departments to assign those staff to locations outside of Dublin.

The locations to which staff from my Department have applied for relocation include:

70 staff from Central Statistics Office (CSO) in Dublin applied for decentralisation. Out of these, 19 have been transferred to their decentralisation posts. The CSO has no record as to whether they are currently in position in the decentralised location outside Dublin. The CSO itself is not part of the Government Decentralisation Programme.