Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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200. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of staff under the remit of her Department who have applied to be transferred to Department or State agency offices located outside the Dublin region in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; the estimated average cost incurred for each staff member that relocated outside the Dublin region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29041/17]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The number of my Department’s staff who have notified my HR Unit of an application for a transfer to offices outside the Dublin region in the period 2014 to date is set out in tabular format below.  This includes staff seeking to move from one of my Department’s regional locations to another. 

The transfers approved were to fill business needs in respective areas of my Department, or other Departments/Agencies, and initiated at the request of the individual staff members concerned. There are therefore no additional costs incurred to my Department.

In respect of the State Agencies under the remit of my Department, although these are day to day matters for which I have no function, nonetheless, I have asked all Agencies to provide me with corresponding information in relation to their own staff and I will communicate that information to the Deputy as soon as it is available.