Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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286. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if or when her Department will utilise section 6(1) of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1939 to confirm a new title for her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23342/16]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6(1) of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1939 (No. 36 of 1939), made the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2016 - Statutory Instrument No. 357 of 2016 - on 5 July 2016.

The Order came into effect on 7 July 2016 and provides that the title of my Department is, in the Irish language an Roinn Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta and in the English language the Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in “Iris Oifigiúil” of 12 July, 2016.