Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of commissions of inquiry or other formal investigations or inquiries being conducted in his Department; the name of these; the date they were established; the expected date the work is intended to be completed; the cost incurred to date; the estimated final cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6364/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Commissions of investigation can investigate matters of significant public concern and are set up by Government order. Such commissions are currently provided for by the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004.

No such commissions of investigation, inquiry or other formal investigations are currently ongoing in my Department.