Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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76. To ask the Taoiseach the delegated responsibilities he has given to Ministers of State in his Department; when the order of delegated responsibility was signed. [31922/16]

Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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On 6 May 2016 the Government appointed Deputy Regina Doherty as Government Chief Whip and Minister of State at my Department, and Deputy Paul Kehoe as Minister of State at my Department and the Department of Defence with special responsibility for the Department of Defence.

On 19 May the Government appointed Deputy Joe McHugh as Minister of State at my Department and at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade with special responsibility for the Diaspora and International Development, and Deputy Dara Murphy as Minister of State at my Department and the Departments of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Justice and Equality with special responsibility for European Affairs, Data Protection and the E.U. Digital Single Market.

At my request, on 14 June, the Government made an Order delegating my statutory functions in relation to the Central Statistics Office under the Statistics Act 1993, the Civil Service Regulation Acts 1956 to 2005 and the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004 to the Government Chief Whip, Deputy Doherty.