Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 19 December 2007
275 Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht 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. [36023/07]
View answerTo date, 47 officers of this Department have transferred in post from Dublin to decentralised locations — 43 to an interim location in Tubbercurry and 4 to Na Forbacha. 31 officers transferred from outside Dublin to those destinations — 29 to Tubbercurry and 2 to Na Forbacha. 8 officers transferred from other Dublin locations to this Department's Dublin office and will relocate in post in due course.
Of the 25 posts filled in Clifden by Pobal only 1 staff member relocated from Dublin, the remaining posts being filled by way of local recruitment. The decentralisation of 30 posts by Foras na Gaeilge to Gaoth Dobhair is still at the planning stage and no staff have decentralised as yet.
