Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 325: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of civil servants and other public servants, who have relocated to locations outside of Dublin under the Government's decentralisation programme; the estimated number of each category who will have relocated by the end of 2009; the breakdown of each set of figures in terms of those who are relocating from Dublin and relocating from elsewhere; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47005/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy will be aware, my Department's decentralisation programme has been extremely successful to date. Five hundred and sixty civil servants have already moved to their decentralised locations. Two hundred and ninety two moved from provincial locations and two hundred and sixty eight staff moved from Dublin. Overall, this represents over 60% of the target numbers for my Department and we now have a presence in all of the seven locations covered by the programme. It is anticipated that a further seventy staff will have moved by the end of 2009, bringing the total number up to six hundred and thirty.