Lisa Chambers (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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280. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs 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 Department officials of certain seniority and responsibility, as per the Carltona doctrine. [17465/16]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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There have not been any occasions where the powers vested in me were exercised by Department officials without any express act of delegation. As the Deputy may be aware, under the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 a number of officials in my Department are authorised to act on my behalf. Under the Public Service Management Act 1997 the Secretary General manages the day to day business of my Department. This Act empowers the Secretary General to assign to other officers responsibility for the performance of his or her functions. Assignments under the Act, with respect to my own Department, can be found at and on www.dcya.gov.ie.