Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 27 April 2004
244 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he has made changes to his plans to relocate the Department of Agricultural staff from the premises in the South Mall in Cork to Macroom; if so, the nature of these changes; the time scale of any such movement of staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11805/04]
View answerThe Government has decided to further develop my Department's decentralisation programme for Cork and the Munster region. It has been decided to establish a new regional laboratory headquarters for Munster in Macroom. This will involve the amalgamation of the three existing laboratories at present located in the Model Farm Road, Cork, and the two laboratories in Limerick into a modern laboratory facility in Macroom employing up to 100 staff.
It has been decided to relocate the Department's local office from the South Mall, Cork City to Fermoy. These relocations will be included as part of the Government's overall decentralisation plan as outlined in the report of the decentralisation implementation group of 31 March last.
