Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 29 June 2004
385 Mr. R. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the risk analysis and the cost benefit analysis which he has carried out or proposes to carry out in respect of decentralisation as it affects his Department. [19091/04]
View answerMy Department's decentralisation implementation plan, which has been submitted to the decentralisation implementation group, includes an initial assessment of the risks and risk mitigation strategies relating to the decentralisation programme. These strategies will be further developed during the implementation of the programme.
386 Mr. R. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the average annual increase in salary costs, overtime and travel to, from and in the decentralised offices in the three years following decentralisation compared to these costs for those business units in the three years preceding decentralisation, in respect of the last decentralisation by his Department. [19106/04]
View answer387 Mr. R. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of persons decentralised and the full duration of the project, in respect of the last decentralisation by his Department; the number of internal and external transfers which were required to obtain the requisite number of persons decentralising; the amount of time necessary to train decentralising persons and the percentage and duration of overlapping staff which was required; and the additional costs for overtime and travel and subsistence incurred. [19121/04]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 386 and 387 together.
The last decentralisation programme directly affecting my Department was announced in April 1987 and involved the transfer of a number of sections to Ballina. The transfer of 115 staff took place in November 1989.
The additional information sought is not readily available and its compilation would involve a disproportionate amount of time and work.
