Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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187. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline in tabular form the number of semi-State organisations currently in operation under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29816/13]

Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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188. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will outline the number of new semi-State organisations under his aegis which have been established since March 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29829/13]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 187 and 188 together.

My Department currently has the following State Agencies supporting us in our work:

The Minister has commenced the process to reform the State’s employment rights and industrial relations structures. This will involve two statutorily independent bodies replacing the current five (which includes NERA). There will be a new single body of first instance to be called the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) and a separate appeals body, which will effectively be an expanded Labour Court. The WRC will replace the Labour Relations Commission, NERA, the Equality Tribunal and undertake the first instance functions of the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT). The Labour Court will take on the appellate functions of the EAT. I have established no new semi-State organisations in my Department since March 2011.