Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 88: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she 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. [40705/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has been making good progress in the relocation of the required 250 posts to Carlow under the Government's Decentralisation Programme.

Officials of my Department, in consultation with the Department of Finance and the OPW, as well as decentralising staff and Business Units, opened an advance office in Carlow on July 30th 2007. The number of staff in this decentralised advance office is 98.

The numbers of staff decentralised to the Department's Carlow office from Dublin locations and locations outside Dublin are set out in the table below.

As my Department is not decentralising in full, officers who are not decentralising and are currently working in areas due to decentralise to provincial locations will be integrated into non-decentralising areas of the Department. There are currently no plans to release non-decentralising staff to other Dublin based Departments.