Lisa Chambers (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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206. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of occasions in each of the years from 2011 to 2016 to date in which the powers vested in her or any other Minister in her Department were exercised, without any express act of delegation, by departmental officials of certain seniority and responsibility, as per the Carltona doctrine. [17464/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Deputy will appreciate that there are very numerous acts and decisions made by civil servants in my Department every day and it is not possible to identify instances in which the Carltona doctrine is exclusively relied upon. However, if the Deputy has a specific query in relation to any particular decision-making process within my Department, I would be happy to provide further information in relation to same.