Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 19 December 2007
262 Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number to date of civil servants and employees of State bodies transferred from Dublin to decentralised locations; the number transferred from outside of Dublin to other decentralised locations; and the number transferred in post to decentralising Departments in Dublin pending planned decentralisation to locations outside of Dublin. [36031/07]
View answerTo date, 177 posts have relocated from the Department's Dublin Offices to Carrick-on-Shannon and Sligo, of whom 65 were Dublin based and 112 were provincially based. In addition, a further 136 employees, of whom 104 are Dublin based and 32 are provincially based, have transferred to this Department's existing decentralised offices in Dundalk, Letterkenny, Longford, Sligo and Waterford to fill vacancies created by the current decentralisation programme. A further 188 Dublin based employees have transferred into posts in preparation for decentralisation. In addition to the above, 195 employees of the Department have transferred to other Government Departments under the programme of decentralisation, of whom 89 were Dublin based employees.
