Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 55: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Parliamentary Questions transferred from his Department to other Departments in the past six months; the reasons they were transferred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21151/12]

Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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From 1 October 2011 to 31 March 2012 my Department transferred 47 Parliamentary Questions to other Departments. Of these, 34 were deemed to have been submitted to my Department in error, with the subject matter proper to another Department. The remaining 13 were fall-on transfers where an identical question was put to more than one Department and the lead Department answered on behalf of all.