Written answers
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Department of Education and Science
Departmental Bodies
8:00 pm
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
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