Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 32: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the revised arrangements for decentralisation of those bodies for which her Department has responsibility, arising from the Budget 2009 announcement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41752/08]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The Minister for Finance, in his Budget 2009 address, announced that the proposed decentralisation of a number of bodies was being deferred pending a review in 2011. This impacts on five agencies under my remit viz. FÁS, Enterprise Ireland (EI), Health and Safety Authority (HSA), National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) and National Consumer Agency (NCA). Decisions on the timing of further work on these programmes are being deferred pending such a review in 2011 in light of budgetary developments.

In reaching its decision the Government has also taken into account the report of the Decentralisation Implementation Group (DIG) on the State Agency aspects of the programme together with the views of the Decentralisation Sub-Group of the SMI Implementation Group of Secretaries General.

As part of the Government's decentralisation programme, advance staff moves have taken place in relation to the Health and Safety Authority to Kilkenny and FÁS to Birr and staff in such locations will remain in place.

Finally, the Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority (IAASA) has fully decentralised to Naas, Co Kildare.