Decentralisation plan fiasco: only 620 make move

ONLY 620 of the 10,300 civil servants due to be decentralised have been assigned to locations outside Dublin, 18 months after the scheme was announced, it emerged yesterday.

While some 9,000 civil servants have applied to be relocated, the fact that only 620, or 6%, have been assigned to their locations was pounced on by the opposition, which claimed the entire programme was heading for failure.

The disclosure was contained in figures obtained by the Oireachtas Committee on Finance & Public Services from the Decentralisation Implementation Group (DIG).