Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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79. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Ministers of State attached to his Department; the responsibilities of each; if designated powers have been signed by him and assigned to the relevant Ministers of State; the date on which each designation was signed; and the reason in circumstances in which no such designation has been made, this has not occurred. [40806/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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On 14 June 2017 the Government appointed Deputy Joe McHugh as Government Chief Whip and Minister of State at my Department and at the Department of Culture, Heritage, and the Gaeltacht with special responsibility for Gaeilge, Gaeltacht and the Islands, and Deputy Paul Kehoe as Minister of State at my Department and at the Department of Defence with special responsibility for Defence.

On 20 June the Government appointed Deputy Pat Breen as Minister of State at my Department and at the Departments of Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Employment Affairs and Social Protection, and Justice and Equality with special responsibility for Trade, Employment, Business, the EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection, Deputy Helen McEntee as Minister of State at my Department and at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade with special responsibility for European Affairs.

At my request, on 5 July, 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 McHugh.