Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 105: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific powers he intends to delegate to Ministers of State in his Department. [5249/11]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Mr Ciarán Cannon T.D. has been appointed Minister of State in my Department and will have responsibility for the areas of skills and training, further education, educational disadvantage and school transport. Mr Seán Sherlock T.D. has also been assigned to my Department and will have responsibility for oversight of the implementation of the specific range of commitments in the Strategy for Science Technology and Innovation that come under the responsibility of the Minister for Education and Skills. This will include oversight of the research funding programmes under the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) and Irish Research Council for Science and Technology (IRCSET). In exercising these delegated functions, the Ministers of State will have regard to the overall responsibilities of the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the wider policy and budgetary framework, and the determination of priorities within that, for the Department of Education and Skills.