Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 279: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a full list of all non-commercial State agencies, various other bodies some of whom are assumed to be State agencies, offices of State, executive offices, separate divisions of Departments and other entities such as the Heritage Council or Top Level Appointments Commission. [5539/12]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The Government is committed to a programme of public service reform and improvement. As part of the work in this area, we are looking at classifications and listings of State Agencies in order to produce more coherent and focused directories of services for citizens and the Oireachtas.

Broadly the position is that there are firstly a number of offices of State which typically are staffed by Civil Servants and have their own Vote for the allocation of public monies and which are within a Vote Group. The list of such bodies is set out at Appendix 1.

Secondly there are non-commercial state bodies who are usually staffed by Public Servants and funded (or part funded) through a grant-in-aid from their parent Department. A list of such bodies is set out at Appendix 2.

Beyond that within each Department there would be many other executive offices, divisions and directorates, operational or consultative groupings, task groups or forums that exist for various purposes that might or might not meet the definition of 'entity'. Many of these groups are transient in nature in response to the needs and business pressures of particular Departments and sectors and details of which would not be held centrally. Questions on such bodies should be directed to the relevant Ministers. The internal organisation of my own Department is set out at Appendix 3.

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Internal Organisation of the Department of Public Expenditure

Office of the Chief Medical Officer

Remuneration and Industrial Relations

Human Resources

Public Service and Reform Delivery

Expenditure policy Evaluation and Management

Labour Market and Enterprise Policy

Health, Pensions Policy and EU/NI

Government Reform unit

Centre for Management and Organisational Development (CMOD) and eGovernment

Civil Service Human Resources

Note all of the above report to the Secretary General of the Department.

Other bodies under my Department would be Top Level Appointments Committee (TLAC), Outside Appointments Board, Public Service Agreement Implementation Body and the Valuation Tribunal.