Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail)

It is not an important point and I do not expect the Minister will do this. Is there a provision on where the Department will be located or should it be done under statute? Is it appropriate to set down in the statute that the Department shall share offices with the Department of Finance? I assume this will be the case. Will the Minister of State provide some clarity on this? It is relevant to the section because we are establishing a new Department. It is certain there will be some costs in terms of headed paper, name plates and so on and we will allow some costs for that. I assume offices will not be rented, that there will be some joint servicing of the Department in terms of information technology and such items and that we will not be setting up whole new functions of support within the Department which could be done easily by the set-up in place in the Department of Finance. Can the Minister of State enlighten us on the practical issues of setting up the buildings and offices and how it will work?