Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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154. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the General Register Office at the Irish Life Centre, Dublin, is being relocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10575/14]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The Office of Public Works (OPW) has responsibility for the acquisition and maintenance of office accommodation for the Department of Social Protection. The lease on the accommodation in the Irish Life Mall, where the research rooms were located, ended in August 2013. As part of a cost saving, lease rationalisation programme the OPW decided not to renew the lease. As a result the research rooms were relocated from the Irish Life Mall to Werburgh Street in September 2013.

Customers seeking access to records for genealogical purposes are receiving the same high level of service at the new facilities in Werburgh Street.