As the Deputy will be aware, the decentralisation programme was initiated in 2003 and a number of areas of my Department were regionalised as part of that programme. None of these units have since been recentralised in their entirety back to Dublin. In November 2014, the Equality Authority merged with the Irish Human Rights Commission to form the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. At the time of the merger, staff of the Equality Authority were based in both Dublin and Roscrea. Upon the merger of the two organisations, the 12 staff based in Roscrea were re-assigned to undertake other functions of the Department. The 14 staff based in Dublin were transferred to the new Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission which is based in Dublin.