Civil servants crisis: only one in three want to move

ONLY one-in-three civil servants whose jobs are to be relocated have volunteered to move out of the capital under the Government's decentralisation plan.

The figure is even worse at State agencies, where only one-in-seven Dublin-based workers want to move.

However, as unions and opposition parties warned the controversial plan had begun to unravel, Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy announced the destination of another 1,220 decentralised posts - 715 of them to his home county of Kildare.