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•  Reduction in public service numbers of more than 22,000 to end Quarter 3, 2011.
• The transfer of more than 1,000 staff of the Community Welfare Service from the HSE to the Department of Social Protection;
• The implementation of new redeployment procedures for second level teachers, resulting in the elimination of a surplus of some 200 teachers, together with the redeployment of some 850 surplus primary school teachers;
• The ongoing work to transfer some 700 staff from FÁS to the Department of Social Protection; and
• The redeployment of some 750 staff internally within the health sector.

There will be further reductions in Public Service numbers. Based on the figures at the end of 2010, the total number of Public Service employees will be reduced by a further 23,500 by 2015.  At that point, Public Service numbers will have fallen by some 37,500, or 12%, since 2008.  When delivered, this will have reduced our pay bill by over €2.5 billion, or 15%, since 2008. 

Further reductions in the number of State Bodies – rationalization of 48 bodies by the end of  2012, and a review of a further 46 bodies by the end of June next year. 

40 projects in the Decentralisation programme will be cancelled.  32 projects - particularly those where permanent accommodation has been provided - will be left in situ and 22 others are being reviewed. A decision on this will be made shortly.

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