Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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224. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when or if his Department will utilise section 6(1) of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1939 to confirm a new title for his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23347/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform received the approval of Government on Tuesday 19 July 2016 to transfer key environmental functions from me to the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources with effect from 22 July 2016. The Government also approved the change of name of my Department to the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government with legal effect from 23 July 2016.