Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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Question 357: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs 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. [47003/08]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Under the Government's decentralisation programme announced in 2003, 125 posts attached to the Development Cooperation Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs were to decentralise to Limerick. The Division is the Headquarters of Irish Aid. Following sanction of an additional 20 posts by the Department of Finance in 2005, the total number of posts attached to Irish Aid Headquarters increased to 145. Of these, 138 are decentralising and 124 staff have now moved into the new permanent Headquarters building in Limerick. The remaining 14 posts are expected to be filled in early 2009. The information requested by the Deputy is conveyed in the tabular format below: