Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will list all new State agencies or bodies established under the aegis of her Department since March 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41883/15]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The statutory bodies operating under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection are the Citizens Information Board, the Pensions Authority, the Pensions Council, the Pensions Ombudsman and the Social Welfare Tribunal.

Two new statutory bodies have been established since March 2011, namely:

-the Pensions Authority, formerly the Pensions Board, which was established on 7 March 2014, and

-the Pensions Council which was established on 3 February 2015.