Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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Question 282: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status of the proposed relocation, under the decentralisation programme, of the Health Information and Quality Authority, addressing the issues of the location to which it is proposed to move; the preparatory steps that have already been taken that is site acquisition and development and so on and cost and interim upkeep; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11208/09]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The Health Information and Quality Authority has located its headquarters in Cork in accordance with the decentralisation programme. The Authority recently moved into permanent offices in Cork having previously occupied temporary accommodation. The Authority also has offices in Dublin. All of these office premises have been acquired on a lease/rental basis.

Proposals by the Authority to procure offices in other locations have been deferred pending a review of the decentralisation programme which is expected to take place in 2011. No costs have been incurred in these locations by the Office of Public Works which manages the procurement of decentralised offices.