Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have to honest and Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív knows this as he has been here long enough. I was given this role last week. Every other Minister walked into an old Department. This is the only new Department that is being set up. It is a new Department. We will have to get a new Secretary General and offices and get the Department up and running. At present, I am using the old office but that will happen.

As I said, I am taking all the questions relating to rural affairs. The Minister of State, Deputy Joe McHugh, was to come to the House and I hope he will be here shortly.

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