Written answers
Thursday, 13 November 2008
Department of Agriculture and Food
Decentralisation Programme
5:00 pm
Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 236: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the number of posts that have been decentralised to date, and of those, the number that have been decentralised from Dublin, and their grades; the number that have opted to remain in Dublin, and their grades; the number of those that have moved to another Department or agency in Dublin; and the number that have been decentralised from outside Dublin to other locations and their grades. [40699/08]
Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Since the programme began there has been an increase of 297 posts in Portlaoise; 220 of which were decentralised from Dublin. 84 posts have moved to Clonakilty; 33 of which were decentralised from Dublin. This is broken down by grade as follows.
Grade | To Portlaoise from Dublin | To Clonakilty from Dublin |
Principal Officers | 2 | 2 |
Assistant Principals | 20 | 4 |
HEO/AO | 48 | 9 |
Executive Officers | 64 | 10 |
Staff Officers | 2 | 3 |
Clerical Officers | 73 | 3 |
Service Officers | 1 | 0 |
Agriculture Inspectors | 6 | |
Assistant Agriculture Inspectors | 3 | |
District Superintendents | 1 | |
Engineers Grade III | 1 | |
Assistant Secretary | 1 | |
Total | 220 | 33 |
Regarding those opting to remain in Dublin, the following is the number of staff who receive notifications for the 'Dublin arrangements' (the system for re-assigning staff within Dublin; the figures do not include Clerical or Staff Officers as they have not yet been included in the arrangements).
Grade | Number |
Principal Officer | 17 |
Assistant Principal Officer | 50 |
Higher Executive Officer | 68 |
Executive Officers | 126 |
Total | 261 |
33 staff have been released to other Dublin based organisations through bilateral transfers and the 'Dublin arrangements' broken down by grade as follows.
Grade | Number |
Principal Officer | 1 |
Assistant Principal Officer | 10 |
Higher Executive Officer | 18 |
Executive Officer | 3 |
Clerical officer | 1 |
Total | 33 |
32 staff have been decentralised from outside Dublin to other locations broken down by grade as follows.
Grade | Number |
Higher Executive Officer | 6 |
Executive Officer | 11 |
Clerical Officer | 15 |
Total | 32 |
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