Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 3 April 2008
12 Deputy Pat Rabbitte asked the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding the decentralisation of his Department; the number of officials that have decentralised to date; the cost to date of the provision of new facilities or the provision of rented accommodation and so on that has been necessary to deal with the decentralisation programme of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12474/08]
View answerTo date, 79 of the 140 staff of my Department originally due to relocate to Co Mayo have transferred to an interim location in Tubbercurry, Co Sligo, pending the building of a new headquarters building at Charlestown, Co Mayo. It is planned to increase the number at the interim location to just over 100 from mid-May 2008. My Department has already fulfilled its commitment to relocate 10 posts to Na Forbacha, Galway.
Non-property costs incurred by my Department to end-2007 amounted to some €1m. In the same period, the Office of Public Works incurred costs of some €650,000 in relation to accommodation for my Department's decentralisation programme.
