John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 427: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the amount the process of decentralisation has cost the taxpayer to date excluding the cost of all sites or buildings acquired; and the cost for each individual location. [40149/08]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of Arts Sport and Tourism was designated for relocation to Killarney, Co. Kerry, under the Government's Decentralisation Programme, which was announced in the 2004 Budget. The annual non-property costs incurred by this Department in the implementation of the decentralisation scheme for each of the past four years are set out in the following table. The expenditure outlined includes the cost of office machinery, office and premises overheads, postal and telecommunications services and travel and subsistence.