Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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143. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the functions and State agencies that will be under her remit following the new Cabinet appointments and portfolios designated; the aspects and sections of labour affairs in her Department that will transfer to the Department of Social Protection; the estimated cost of this; and the timeframe for the publication of the ministerial briefing available on her department's website. [29151/17]

Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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147. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the responsibilities that have been transferred from her Department to the Department of Employment and Social Protection. [29200/17]

Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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148. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the responsibilities that have been transferred from her Department to other Departments. [29201/17]

Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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151. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there will be changes in staffing or funding to her department as a result of its reconfiguration. [29204/17]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 143, 147, 148 and 151 together.

Following on the announcement by An Taoiseach of changes to the configuration of the Department of Jobs Enterprise and Innovation and the Department of Social Protection the process of identifying the functional areas, staff and resources that will transfer from my Department has begun. This is being done in accordance with the Transfer of Functions Guidelines and Best Practice Handbook published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in 2016.

When the details have been agreed in consultation with the Department of the Taoiseach, my Department, as the transferring Department, will prepare a draft Transfer of Functions Order which will be settled by the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel and brought to Government by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Alteration of Title Orders are prepared simultaneously but take effect after the transfer of functions.

Transfer of functions are to be achieved on an Exchequer-neutral basis. However some costs inevitably arise where titles of Departments change or there is a need for physical movement of people or assets.

I expect that publication on my department's website, of the ministerial briefing referred to, will take place in the coming days.