Decentralisation plan not feasible, say Probation Service chiefs

PROBATION Service management has written to the Department of Justice telling it that only 17 of the 100 posts earmarked for decentralisation can feasibly be transferred.

But the department has told the service that 100 of the 163 posts in Dublin must move to Navan within two years.

The union representing officers in the service said it would be “ludicrous” to move almost two thirds of Dublin-based probation staff to Co Meath.