Currently, the State rents some 200,000 square meters of office space in Dublin. In addition, it uses some 230,000 square meters of State-owned office accommodation in Dublin. These office area figures relate to buildings occupied by civil servants. The space occupied by the State bodies earmarked for decentralisation is additional to these figures.
Under the decentralisation programme, approximately 230,000 square meters of office accommodation will be required in the regions for staff moving out of Dublin. A broadly equivalent amount of space will no longer be required in the Dublin area as a consequence. The precise breakdown of office space in Dublin — both leased and owned — occupied by the units scheduled in the decentralisation programme is currently being formulated.