Vol. 430 No. 3
62 Mr. Callely asked the Minister for Education if she will give a breakdown of the total cost involved to date for her Department under the Government's current programme of decentralisation; if she will clarify the costs and relevant payments to personnel with regard to the relocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
My Department relocated staff to Athlone in 1991 under the Government's decentalisation programme. The cost of that decentralisation amounted to approximately £858,000, broken down as follows:
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£ |
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Furniture and fittings — including removals |
235,000 |
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Installation of telephone and computer systems |
81,000 |
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Courier services to date |
37,000 |
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Training costs, including special payments made to staff who were temporarily relocated to Dublin for training purposes |
85,000 |
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Additional travel and subsistence costs to date, including overtime |
97,000 |
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Increase in staff numbers, pending absorption to normal staffing levels (now almost complete) |
320,000 |
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Advertising |
3,000 |
