Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 547: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the organisations or authorities operating within her Department's policy area, set up by statute or statutory instrument, for which she does not have official responsibility to Dáil Éireann. [31111/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy will be aware that while individual institutions in the education sector have varying degrees of autonomy according to their status and statutory provisions, the Minister has an overarching responsibility for education policy across all levels of the education system and responsibility for funding provided from the Education Vote. Set out below are a list of bodies that have been set up by statute or statutory instrument.

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies — Institute for Advanced Studies Act 1940

Further Education & Training Awards Council — Qualifications (Education & Training) Act, 1999

Grangegorman Development Agency — Grangegorman Development Agency Act 2005

Higher Education and Training Awards Council — Qualifications (Education & Training) Act, 1999

Higher Education Authority — HEA Act 1971

National Council for Curriculum and Assessment — Education Act 1998

National Council for Special Education — Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004

National Educational Welfare Board — Education (Welfare) Act 2000

National Qualifications Authority of Ireland — Qualifications (Education & Training) Act, 1999

Residential Institution Redress Board — Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002

Residential Institution Review Committee — Residential Institutions Redress Act 2002

Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse — Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Act 2000

Education Finance Board — Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (Amendment) Act 2005

Royal Irish Academy of Music — 1885 Educational Endowments Act

Royal Irish Academy — 1785 Royal Charter

State Examinations Commission — State Examinations Commission (Establishment) Order 2003

The Teaching Council — Teaching Council Act 2001

Vocational Education Committees — VEC Act 1930

Institutes of Technology — Regional Technical Colleges Act, 1992 and Qualifications (Education and Training) Act 1999 *

Dublin Institute of Technology — Qualifications (Education and Training) Act 1999 and DIT Act 1992*

*See also Institutes of Technology Act 2006

National University of Ireland Universities Act 1997

University College Dublin — Universities Act 1997

University College Cork — Universities Act 1997

National University of Ireland Galway — Universities Act 1997

National University of Ireland Maynooth — Universities Act 1997

Dublin City University — Universities Act 1997

University of Limerick — Universities Act 1997

Trinity College Dublin — Universities Act 1997

National College of Art and Design — NCAD Act 1971