Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour)
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355. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will outline what offices relevant to his Department are located or have been decentralised outside of Dublin; if he will provide the total number of staff in his Department and the number of staff based outside County Dublin as of 2013; the annual cost incurred in 2012 and 2013 respectively for decentralised staff travelling to meetings in Dublin; the number of times staff travelled to individual meetings in Dublin in each of those years; the costs those staff will be reimbursed for; and if his Department has procedures or mechanisms in place such as video conferencing to reduce the cost of travelling for each unit based outside Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53990/13]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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All or part of the following Divisions of my Department have decentralised to Cavan town: Information Systems Division; Corporate Services Division; Finance and Corporate Affairs Division; Inland Fisheries; and Internal Audit Unit.

The total number of staff in my Department is 245 of which 42 are based in Cavan.

The annual cost incurred in 2012 and 2013 for staff travelling from Cavan to the Department's Head Quarters in Dublin are set out in the following table.