Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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130. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of persons employed at her Department's office at Davis Street, Tipperary town, County Tipperary; the way in which this compares each year since it opened; if there is physical capacity in these offices for further decentralisation of jobs; her plans in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3151/17]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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Further to the question posed by the Deputy I assume that the reference to Davis Street, Tipperary Town relates to the Private Security Authority, an independent regulatory body under the remit of my Department, with responsibility for regulating and licensing the private security industry in the State.

The Private Security Authority decentralised to Tipperary town in October 2004 when a temporary office was first established. The table sets out the information on the number of persons employed from 2005 to date.

As the Deputy will be aware the Citizenship Division of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service of my Department is also a decentralised office located in Tipperary Town and there are 56 officers employed in that office.

There are currently no further plans to decentralise any more of my Department's functions to Tipperary Town.