I propose to take Questions Nos. 79, 83 and 84 together.
A total of 383 posts were decentralised to Cork by the Central Statistics Office in 1994. Of these, 158 staff transferred in their existing grade, 59 from the CSO and 99 from other Departments. A total of 116 staff were transferred on promotion and 109 were recruited to the Civil Service. The decentralisation was announced in June 1991 and the subsequent move to Cork took place in two phases in January 1994, when about 300 staff moved to the Cork office. The remaining staff were appointed during the course of 1994.
The CSO began putting the professional management structure in place from February 1993 with the recruitment and training of statisticians. This early recruitment allowed for on the job training and overlap in Dublin before moving to Cork. Detailed manuals were prepared describing the work procedures, statistical processes and computer systems in all sections of the office and job descriptions were prepared for all posts from staff officer level upwards. The intake of volunteers from other Departments began in summer 1993. Training of new staff was mainly on the job and was conducted by serving staff and line management, with some courses also provided by the CSO training unit and the Civil Service training centre.
Details of salary costs, overtime and travel and subsistence for the CSO for the years 1991 to 1997, as published in the appropriation accounts, are set out in the following table. A comparable breakdown is not available in respect of activities which transferred to Cork. These figures include a number of large scale periodic activities such as the population and agricultural censuses in 1991, the household budget survey in 1994 and the census of population in 1996.
Year
|
Salaries
|
of which: overtime
|
Travel & subsistence
|
of which: home travel
|
|
€m
|
€m
|
€m
|
€m
|
1991
|
8.717
|
0.244
|
0.429
|
n.a.*
|
1992
|
10.865
|
0.227
|
0.310
|
n.a.
|
1993
|
11.160
|
0.226
|
0.364
|
n.a.
|
1994
|
11.392
|
0.300
|
0.578
|
0.321
|
1995
|
11.306
|
0.301
|
0.519
|
0.350
|
1996
|
14.227
|
0.255
|
0.484
|
0.297
|
1997
|
15.580
|
0.366
|
0.565
|
0.376
|
*n.a. Details not available.