Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 25 March 2004
112 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Health and Children the sections of his Department that have already been relocated outside of Dublin to date; and how many workers transferred were the originally attached to his Department. [9490/04]
View answerOn foot of a Government decision in 1992, a portion of my Department, namely, the General Register's Office, decentralised to Roscommon in 1996. In order to retain an acceptable level of service to the public, and to allow for the modernisation of the service provided by the GRO, including the introduction of new legislation and information technology, it was decided to proceed with the decentralisation on a phased basis. There are now 40 staff employed in the decentralised office. Of this number, three staff transferred from my Department, six staff were directly recruited and the balance of 31 transferred from other Departments.
