Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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Question 300: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the reason the number of staff working in his Department's environment unit has been reduced by 25% in recent months (details supplied). [16395/06]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Following the designation of the Health and Safety Authority as competent authority for the proposed EU chemicals regulation (REACH), responsibility for the regulation transferred from the Environment Unit to the Health and Safety Liaison Section of the Department. Two of the five posts in Environment Unit, one Assistant Principal post and one Executive Officer post, transferred with the work.