Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the functions and responsibilities that will be transferred from his Department to the Department of Community and Rural Affairs. [29181/17]

Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the new Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government will officially be established. [29182/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 262 and 263 together.

Restructuring of Government Departments is a matter for the Taoiseach and, following on from the Taoiseach’s stated intention to establish a new Department of Community and Rural Affairs, responsibility for certain community functions will transfer from my Department.

Responsibilities transferring are likely to include community and voluntary supports and programmes and the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme, along with other community-related functions. The final detail of this will be discussed and agreed between my Department and my colleague Minister Ring's team as part of the formal statutory transfer of functions process. Once this transfer of functions process has been completed, my Department will progress the necessary legislation to change the Department's name.