Very good progress has been achieved. A site has been acquired at Knock Airport and the OPW are currently evaluating tenders for the construction there of the new headquarters of the Department.
Of the 140 posts due to transfer to Knock Airport, some 65 will transfer to temporary accommodation in Tubbercurry from mid-2006. When the new headquarters is ready for occupation, the Tubbercurry posts and those posts still remaining in Dublin at that stage will transfer to Knock Airport.
As regards Na Forbacha, 7 of the 10 posts due to transfer there from Dublin are now in place.
Progress with the decentralisation of bodies reporting to or under the aegis of the Department is also very good.
The decentralisation of Pobal, formerly ADM, to Clifden has progressed very well. Of the 40 posts due to transfer there, a total of 20 will be in place shortly.
I am answering today other Dáil questions specifically relating to the decentralisation programme of Foras na Gaeilge.