Written answers
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Decentralisation Programme Expenditure
Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour)
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434. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 340 of 17 December 2013, if he will outline fully for the 353 staff based outside Dublin where each employee is based, the number of staff based at Na Forbacha, County Galway and the cost of travel, the number of individual claims for staff based there to Dublin or elsewhere in the country in 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1680/14]
Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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The distribution of the 353 staff based outside Dublin as requested by the Deputy is set out in the following tables.
Administrative and Professional & Technical staff
| Location | No of staff |
|---|---|
| Government Buildings, New Road Killarney | 44 |
| Na Forbacha, Co na Gaillimhe | 39 |
| Government Buildings, Newtown Road, Wexford | 36 |
| Killarney National Park | 12 |
| NPWS Western Region, Loughrea, Co Galway | 10 |
| Government Buildings, Headford Road, Galway | 9 |
| NPWS Southern Region, Nenagh, Co Tipperary | 9 |
| Government Buildings, Ballina, Co Mayo | 8 |
| NPWS Northern Region, Ballinafad, Co Sligo | 6 |
| Wicklow Mountain National Park, Laragh, Co Wicklow | 6 |
| Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga, An Spidéal, Co na Gaillimhe | 6 |
| NPWS Northern Region, Ballinafad, Co Sligo | 5 |
| Ballycroy National Park, Co Mayo | 5 |
| Glenveagh National Park, Letterkenny, Co Donegal | 5 |
| Station Road, Kildare Town | 5 |
| Archaeologists (Field Staff) | 4 |
| Eastgate, Little Island, Cork | 4 |
| Government Buildings, Nenagh | 4 |
| St. Francis Street, Ennis | 4 |
| An tEastát Tionscail, Gweedore, Co Donegal | 3 |
| Friarsmill Road, Mullingar | 3 |
| Moyne, Co Longford | 3 |
| NPWS, Atlumney, Co Meath | 3 |
| St Patricks Street, Kilkenny | 2 |
| Flood Street, Galway | 2 |
| Government Buildings ,Mullingar | 2 |
| Government Buildings, The Glen, Waterford | 2 |
| Gweedore, Co Donegal | 2 |
| National Monument Depot Mallow, Co Cork | 2 |
| NPWS South East Region, Kilkenny | 2 |
| NPWS South West Region, Little Island, Cork | 2 |
| Dromohair, Co Leitrim, | 2 |
| Ballinasloe, Co Galway | 1 |
| Clifden, Co. Galway | 1 |
| Connemara National Park, Letterfrack, Co Galway | 1 |
| Coole Park National Reserve, Gort, Co Galway | 1 |
| Glengariff Nature Reserve, Glengariff, Co Cork | 1 |
| Kilmurray South, Cork | 1 |
| NPWS,North Eastern Region, Kildare Town | 1 |
| NPWS North & Midlands Region, Ballinafad, Co Sligo | 1 |
| Wexford Wildfowl Reserve, Ardcavan Lane, Wexford | 1 |
| Total | 260 |
State Industrial Staff
| Location | No of staff |
|---|---|
| Glenveagh National Park, Letterkenny, Co Donegal | 28 |
| Killarney National Park, Killarney, Co Kerry | 25 |
| Connemara National Park, Letterfrack, Co Galway | 16 |
| Wicklow Mountains National Park, Laragh, Co Wicklow | 11 |
| Coole Nature Reserve, Gort, Co Galway | 3 |
| Dromore Wood Nature Reserve, Ruan, Ennis, Co Clare | 2 |
| Glengarriff Nature reserve, Cork | 2 |
| NPWS Northern Region, Ballinafad, Co Sligo | 2 |
| Ballycroy National Park, Co Mayo | 1 |
| Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim | 1 |
| Flood Street, Galway | 1 |
| Little Island, Cork | 1 |
| Total | 93 |
The requested details in relation to travel by the 39 staff based in at Na Forbacha, County Galway are set out as follows.
| Year | Number of Claims | Value € |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 202 | €63,052.11 |
| 2013 | 153 | €51,470.41 |
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