John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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Question 486: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs 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. [40158/08]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Since the commencement of the decentralisation programme in the Department, expenditure returns have been submitted to the Department of Finance detailing non-property costs associated with the programme for both this Department and the agencies under its aegis. The expenditure recorded in respect of non-property costs for the period up to the end of September 2008 is set out.

Acquisition of sites or buildings and their associated costs is a matter for the O.P.W.