Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 573: To ask the Minister for Defence the organisations or authorities operating within his Department's policy area, set up by statute or statutory instrument, for which he does not have official responsibility to Dáil Éireann. [31110/07]

Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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The office of Ombudsman for the Defence Forces was established by the Ombudsman (Defence Forces) Act, 2004. Section 4 (1) of the Act states that: "The Ombudsman shall be independent in the performance of his or her functions".

The Irish Red Cross Society is an independent charitable organisation. While the Society is supported by a grant-in-aid from my Department and my Department also enacts any necessary legislation, I do not have a policy role in relation to its activities.