Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the State agencies under the remit of her Department who have, or had over the past decade, the power to sign statutory instruments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42037/09]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The Agencies under the remit of my Department that have the power to sign Statutory Instruments (SIs) are: · The Labour Court, · The Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority, · The National Standards Authority of Ireland · The Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Injuriesboard.ie), and · FÁS. These powers are delegated to the respective Agencies to enable them to deal effectively with the technical aspects of the functions assigned to them under the provisions of their parent Acts.

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Question 126: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if she will provide a list of all unnumbered statutory instruments signed by her or her predecessors over the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42052/09]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Details of the three unnumbered Statutory Instruments signed by my predecessors or myself in the last decade are set out in the table below. The Department applied for and was granted exemption under the Statutory Instrument Act 1947 for these schemes by the Office of the Attorney General. These exemptions were granted because of the limited application of the schemes and serve to avoid the unnecessary circulation of multiple copies of such schemes to the bodies designated under Section 3 of the Act, e.g., Universities and Libraries countrywide.

The Statutory Instrument listed in respect of the National Standards Authority of Ireland was, in fact, allocated a number (S.I. No. 573 0f 2006) in error.