The number of my Department’s staff who have notified my HR Unit of an application for a transfer to offices outside the Dublin region in the period 2014 to date is set out in the table. This includes staff seeking to move from one of my Department’s regional locations to another.
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Year
|
Number of Officers who applied for transfers outside of Dublin
|
Number of Officers who transferred outside of Dublin
|
|
2014
|
7
|
6
|
|
2015
|
6
|
1
|
|
2016
|
5
|
6
|
|
2017
|
2
|
8
|
|
Total
|
20
|
21
|
The transfers approved were to fill business needs in respective areas of my Department, or other Departments/Agencies, and initiated at the request of the individual staff members concerned. There are therefore no additional costs incurred to my Department.
In respect of the State Agencies under the remit of my Department, although these are day to day matters for which I have no function, nonetheless, I have asked all Agencies to provide me with corresponding information in relation to their own staff and I will communicate that information to the Deputy as soon as it is available.
The following deferred reply was received under Standing Order 42A:
I refer to Parliamentary Question 29041/17, which was responded to on 20 June 2017.
"To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation the number of staff under the remit of her department that have applied to be transferred to department or State agency offices located outside the Dublin region in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; the estimated average cost incurred for each staff member that relocated outside the Dublin region; and if she will make a statement on the matter".
In my reply, I undertook to request the agencies under the remit of my Department to supply the requested information. This is now set out in the following tables:
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Agency
|
Current Location / Location moved from
|
Staff requesting transfer to location outside Dublin
|
Staff who have moved on transfer request to location outside Dublin
(includes requests made before 2014)
|
|
Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC)
|
Dublin
|
1
|
0
|
|
|
Total Staff
|
1
|
0
|
The transfer approved did not incur any additional costs for the CCPC as the transfer was initiated at the request of the individual staff member concerned.
|
Agency
|
Current Location / Location moved from
|
Staff requesting transfer to location outside Dublin
|
Staff who have moved on transfer request to location outside Dublin
(includes requests made before 2014)
|
|
Health & Safety Authority (HSA)
|
Dublin
|
6
|
3
|
|
|
Limerick
|
1
|
0
|
|
|
Athlone
|
1
|
0
|
|
|
Kilkenny
|
2
|
0
|
|
|
Total Staff
|
10
|
3
|
The transfers approved did not incur any additional costs for the HSA as the transfers were initiated at the request of the individual staff members concerned.
|
Agency
|
Current Location / Location moved from
|
Staff requesting transfer to location outside Dublin
|
Staff who have moved on transfer request to location outside Dublin
(includes requests made before 2014)
|
|
National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI)
|
Dublin
|
0
|
1(transferred on secondment)
|
|
|
Total Staff
|
0
|
1
|
The secondment approved did not incur any additional costs other than the salary associated with it.
|
Agency
|
Current Location / Location moved from
|
Staff requesting transfer to location outside Dublin
|
Staff who have moved on transfer request to location outside Dublin
(includes requests made before 2014)
|
|
Enterprise Ireland (EI)
|
|
0
|
0
|
|
The Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority (IAASA)
|
|
0
|
0
|
|
IDA Ireland
|
|
0
|
0
|
|
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
|
|
0
|
0
|
|
Personal Injuries Board (PIAB)
|
|
0
|
0
|
|
|
Total Staff
|
0
|
0
|
