Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 3 June 2004
40 Mr. Stanton asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position in relation to the decentralisation of ADM staff to Clifden in view of the fact that over 60% of staff surveyed expressed an unwillingness to decentralise. [16651/04]
View answerI assume that the Deputy is referring to an informal survey conducted by ADM at the start of the decentralisation process before the central applications facility, CAF, was launched. As decentralisation is a voluntary process, it will be open to ADM staff, as it is to all civil and public servants, to make expressions of interest through the CAF in respect of any of the decentralising locations, including Clifden. I understand that the Civil Service Commission will be reporting on progress on this process to the Decentralisation Implementation Committee during July.
