Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 14 January 2015
1044. Deputy Patrick O'Donovan asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the agencies or sections from her Department that were decentralised during the period 1997 to 2011; the travel costs and expenses incurred by decentralised personnel travelling to their base Department in that period. [1023/15]
View answer78 staff of my Department are based in two locations - New Road, Killarney (44 staff) and Newtown Road, Wexford (34 staff) – that were established under the Decentralisation Programme announced in 2004. However, since my Department was only established in its present format in June 2011, I am advised it would not be possible, in the context of available staffing resources and the considerable time that would be required, to collate the information requested by the Deputy for the period 1997-2011.
