Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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190. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the Tidy Towns unit has relocated to County Sligo; the expense and cost associated with this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42349/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The Office of Public Works leased buildings in Tubbercurry, Co Sligo, on a temporary basis, for the former Department of Community , Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs (CEGA). Those offices were provided as an advance office for the decentralisation of that former Department to Charlestown, Co. Mayo. Following a reconfiguration of Government Departments, the Community Division of CEGA transferred to my Department in May 2011.

Following a review of the Decentralisation Programme conducted by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in 2012, the Government decided to consolidate my Department’s business operations in the North West, including the Tidy Towns Unit, in existing Government offices in Ballina, Co Mayo.