Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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205. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason Vote 12 was transferred from his Department Vote group to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in 2011. [41123/20]

Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (DPER) was established in 2011 to reduce public spending to more sustainable levels and to reform and improve our public services under the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011.

As part of the establishment of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, certain functions primarily focussed on expenditure including Vote 12 Superannuation and Retired Allowances were transferred from Minister for Finance and these functions are outlined in Section 9 of the above Act entitled “Transfer of certain other functions to Minister”.