Under the Government's current decentralisation programme for the civil and public service, some 1,200 posts comprising the Department's headquarter sections and the Social Welfare Appeals Office are relocating to 6 locations – Sligo, Carrick-on-Shannon, Donegal Town, Buncrana, Carrickmacross and Drogheda. To date, 212 posts have relocated from the Department's Dublin Offices to Carrick-on-Shannon and Sligo under the current programme – 140 posts to Carrick-on-Shannon and 72 posts to Sligo. As outlined in the table below, 69 officers were based in Dublin prior to their relocation under the decentralisation programme.
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PO
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AP
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HEO
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EO
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SO
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CO
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Service Grades
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Total
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Grade breakdown of posts decentralised from Dublin
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5
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19
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36
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47
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9
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92
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4
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212
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No. of Dublin based staff that decentralised
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1
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2
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23
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24
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1
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17
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1
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69
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152 employees, who were based in the Business Units that relocated, opted to redeploy to other Business Units in the Department remaining in Dublin. They were redeployed to vacancies that arose due to normal staff turnover e.g. retirements, resignations, transfers and staff moving to other Departments for their decentralisation programmes. The table below outlines the grade breakdown.
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PO
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AP
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HEO
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EO
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SO
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CO
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Service Grades
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Total
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No. of employees serving in Business Units relocating that opted to remain in Dublin
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4
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15
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22
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31
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9
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71
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0
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152
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In addition, the Department has decentralised offices in Longford, Sligo, Letterkenny, Waterford, Dundalk and Roscommon and some 219 Civil Servants, of which 42 employees were serving in provincial locations within this Department, have transferred to these offices and other offices of the Department to fill vacancies created by the current decentralisation programme. Furthermore, a total of 258 employees of the Department, of which 129 were provincial based, have transferred to other Government Departments for the purposes of their decentralisation programmes. The table below outlines the grade breakdown requested.
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PO
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AP
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HEO
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EO
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SO
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CO
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Service Grades
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Total
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Staff serving in provincial locations within this Department that transferred to fill vacancies created by the programme
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0
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0
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2
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8
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10
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22
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0
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42
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Provincial based staff by grade that transferred for other Government Departments Programmes
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1
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4
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12
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29
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10
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73
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0
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129
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