Seán Kyne (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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486. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide in tabular form all the State agencies, bodies, organisations and working groups under his Department's remit; the core duties and functions of each; the number of staff in each; the budget of each for 2013 and the proposed budget for 2014; the date of establishment of the agencies or organisations; and the legislation, primary or otherwise, from which they derive their powers. [37206/14]

Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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There are no State agencies, bodies or organisations under the aegis of my Department. There are seven ad hoc advisory groups/committees to which I make appointments. These are: the Emigrant Services Advisory Committee; the Advisory Group of the Global Irish Network; the Irish Aid Expert Advisory Group; the NGO Standing Committee on Human Rights; the Standing Committee on Holocaust Education, Research and Remembrance; the Monitoring Group on Ireland’s National Action Plan for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 and the Consultative Group on Ireland’s Second National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security. Officers from my Department provide secretariat and other supports to the aforementioned groups; they have no staff of their own.

I am also responsible for making appointments to the Ireland–United States Commission for Educational Exchange (The Fulbright Commission). The Commission is jointly financed by the Irish and US Governments and enjoys autonomy of management and administration, in accordance with the Educational Exchange (Ireland and the United States of America) Act, 1991. The Commission has a staff of four.