Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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615. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of agencies, boards or other bodies under the aegis of her Department that have been disbanded or amalgamated or whose functions were subsumed back into her Department since 2011; the number of such bodies set up by her Department since that date; the names of the bodies in each case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3403/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The statutory bodies operating under the aegis of my Department are the Citizens Information Board, the Low Pay Commission, the Pensions Authority, the Pensions Council and the Social Welfare Tribunal.

Two statutory bodies have been established by my Department since 2011, namely;

- The Pensions Authority, formerly the Pensions Board, which was established on 7 March 2014, and

- The Pensions Council, which was established on 3 February 2015.

Under the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Act 2017, the Office of the Pensions Ombudsman was dissolved and re-established under the Office of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman with effect from 1 January 2018. That Office is under the aegis of the Department of Finance.

With effect from 2 September 2017, the Low Pay Commission came under the aegis of my Department under the terms of the Labour Affairs and Labour Law (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2017.