Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 1536: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he intends to decentralise his Department to Cavan; the estimated cost thereof; the cost to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33147/10]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 1537: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if it is still intended to decentralise Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, Inland Fisheries Ireland and the Ordnance Survey; the estimated cost thereof; the cost to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33163/10]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1536 and 1537 together.

The Decentralisation Programme as originally announced in December 2003, included the proposal to relocate the headquarter of my department to Cavan, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland to Dundalk, Inland Fisheries Ireland to Carrick-on-Shannon and Ordnance Survey Ireland to Dungarvan. As announced by the Minister for Finance in his statement of 14th October 2008, the Government has deferred decisions on the timing of the implementation of elements of the Decentralisation Programme, including that of my Department and agencies under its aegis, pending a review in 2011.

The only estimate available for the total cost of the project would be in relation to the possible building works and that is a matter for the Office of Public Works. My Department has not incurred any costs in 2010 associated with the decentralisation process. The question of costs arising in the agencies is an operational matter for those agencies and as such is a matter in which I have no role.