Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 470: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of civil servants and other public servants in her Department who had been decentralised from Dublin to other locations by the original deadline for the completion of the plan of December 2006; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33063/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The Supplementary Welfare Allowance Section of the Department, comprising 15 posts relocated from Dublin to Sligo in July 2005, as part of the current programme of decentralisation. In addition, 3 posts from the Department's Staff Development Unit also relocated from Dublin to Sligo during 2006.

While no further posts had relocated by the original deadline of December 2006, a number of officers had transferred into the Department in preparation for the relocation of business units to both Sligo and Carrick-on-Shannon which took place during 2007. At the end of 2007, 111 posts had relocated from Dublin to Carrick-on-Shannon and a further 48 posts had relocated to Sligo, which brought the total number of new posts decentralised to Sligo under the current programme to 66 posts. In addition to the above, by the end of 2006, a total of 100 employees of the Department had transferred to other Government Departments for the purposes of their decentralisation programme.