Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 25 March 2004
91 Mr. Eamon Ryan asked the Minister for Education and Science the sections of his Department that have already been relocated outside of Dublin to date; and the extent to which the workers transferred were the original workers attached to his Department. [9488/04]
Amharc ar fhreagraMy Department has approximately 335 staff in Athlone and approximately 195 in Tullamore following previous decentralisation which took place between 1977 and 1995. Some of the staff would have been directly recruited, some promoted and some would have transferred to those locations. My Department does not have statistics to indicate the Department of origin of the staff in question who were already serving civil servants prior to the transfer to Athlone and Tullamore.
