Frank Feighan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 210: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to move the Inland Fisheries Ireland headquarters to Carrick-on-Shannon where a building for this purpose lies empty; if he will end the position where premises in Swords have been rented since 2004 at more than €1,000,000; if he will expedite the move as promised in 2002. [46229/09]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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The Decentralisation Programme as originally announced in December 2003, included the proposal to relocate the Headquarters of the Central Fisheries Board to Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim. As announced by the Minister for Finance in his statement of 14 October 2008, the Government has deferred decisions on the timing of the implementation of elements of the Decentralisation Programme including that of the Central Fisheries Board, pending a review in 2011. Issues relating to the possible purchase of a site in Carrick-on-Shannon for the proposed decentralisation and to the cost of rental of offices generally for the Board are matters for the Office of Public Works (OPW). However I understand, from liaison between officials in my Department and OPW, that while a number of site and property options have been investigated, no interest in any property has yet been acquired by OPW for the proposed decentralisation in Carrick-on-Shannon.