Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 128: To ask the Minister for Finance if staff employed by the Pensions Board in Dublin are eligible to apply for a transfer to a Government Department in any other county outside Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30477/10]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Eligibility to apply for transfer from one Government Department to another is regulated in accordance with arrangements agreed centrally with the Civil Service unions. These arrangements apply to the transfer of civil servants within the Civil Service.

The staff of the Pensions Board are public servants and are therefore not eligible to apply for transfer to a Civil Service post under the above arrangements. However, the Decentralisation Programme allows public servants to express an interest in transferring to locations identified under the Programme.