Preparing for the Cabinet's downsizing plan, the Government Information Office (GIO) is planning to shift all of its people, including representative offices overseas, to three of the Executive Yuan's administrative entities and a newly established Department of Information.
The Cabinet is scheduled to finalize the downsizing plan on Friday.
According to Chang Ping-nan (張平男), GIO deputy director, the office would transfer all 890 of its people and their responsibilities to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Council for Cultural Affairs, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications and the newly established Department of Information.
"We'll transfer 145 people to the new Department of Information," Chang said.
"There will be 481 people assigned to the foreign affairs ministry, 153 people will go to the cultural affairs council and the remaining 111 are to be transferred to the transportation ministry," Chang told the Taipei Times after a closed-door meeting with Cabinet Deputy Secretary-General Liu Yu-shan (劉玉山) yesterday afternoon.
The 145 people who are scheduled to be transferred to the new Department of Information are from six departments, including part of the domestic information service department and international information service department.
To take in the 481 people from the GIO, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has proposed setting up two additional departments.
In regard to some of the 153 people who are to go to the cultural affairs council, Chang said that the GIO would like to see a new department to accommodate people from the animation picture department and the publication department.
The Cabinet approved on April 24 a draft of the Organic Law of the Executive Yuan (
The Legislative Yuan is scheduled to review the draft bill during the next legislative session, which begins Sept. 24.
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