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Public Affairs Ireland DirectoryForeward

Welcome to the fifth edition of the Public Affairs Ireland Directory, which we hope you will find useful and informative.

This edition of the Directory reflects the significant changes that have occurred in Irish government and politics over the last 12 months. Since this time last year Ireland has a new President, a new Government and has witnessed major changes in the structures of Government Departments and agencies. In addition there have been major changes to the membership of the Oireachtas and the Committee structure has seen a radical overhaul as part of a programme of Dail Reforms. All of these changes are captured in the 2012 Public Affairs Ireland Directory.

The Programme of Public Sector Reform and the adjustments required as a consequence of the EU/ECB/IMF Programme of Financial Support for Ireland will bring further changes in the coming year. In particular the scale and pace of retirements from the public sector which are expected by the end of February 2012 and the amalgamation of agencies announced in the Reform Programme means that a publication such as the Directory will always be recording a dynamic and changing landscape. As a publication that is available in hard copy, but also updated online throughout the year, the Public Affairs Ireland Directory will keep abreast of the changes in the staffing and structure of Departments and agencies.

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Public Affairs Ireland Directory

Chapter 1: Office of the President

Chapter 2: Department of the Taoiseach

Chapter 3: Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

Chapter 4: Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

Chapter 5: Department of Education and Skills

Chapter 6: Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation

Chapter 7: Department of Environment, Community and Local Government

Chapter 8: Department of Finance

Chapter 9: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Chapter 10: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Chapter 11: Department of Justice and Equality

Chapter 12: Department of Defence

Chapter 13: Department of Social Protection

Chapter 14: Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food

Chapter 15: Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport

Chapter 16: Department of Health

Chapter 17: Department of Children

Chapter 18: Houses of the Oireachtas

Chapter 19: Office of the Attorney General

Chapter 20: The European Union

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The course will provide an introduction to the legislation, look at the role of the Information Commissioner and review recent court decisions. It is designed to be a practical and focused course for any public servant involved in the provision of information to the public. This course aims to equip FOI officers with the skills, knowledge and competencies to be able to fulfil their role. The course will take a pragmatic approach and will focus on practical FOI tasks and essential law, rules and guidelines, as opposed to theory. Participants will have the opportunity to share their own experiences and get a valuable insight into issues and an understanding of best practice. This course is accredited by the Institute of Commercial Management (ICM). Delegates will receive an ICM continuing professional development (CPD) certificate on successful completion of the course including a single assignment to be completed after the taught aspect of the course has ended

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CONFERENCES

• The Future of English Language Training in Ireland• A National Policy for State Owned Enterprises?• The Croke Park Agreement: What does it mean in practice for public servants?• Challenge and Change and the Irish public service in 2010• Strategic public procurement: The challenges for the public sector• Regulating Ireland: Reforming regulatory structures for a new economy• Freedom of Information and Data Protection in Ireland in 2009: An update for challenging economic times• The IFSC Dublin: Change and challenge

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They have considerable global know-how with 21 years experience in management and implementation of major strategic projects and in particular have extensive experience in implementing software solutions on a fixed time/fixed price basis. They are co-authors of the highly acclaimed book “The No-Nonsense Project Handbook”

Tina Kinirons specialises in management and leadership development, working as a consultant, trainer and coach. She worked in management, sales and consulting roles for IBM and Microsoft, before retraining as an occupational psychologist. Tina develops and presents training on a range of management topics, including motivation, delegation, communication,

change, empowerment, performance management and leadership skills. Her coaching work includes executive coaching, management coaching, career coaching and interview skills coaching. She holds a M.Sc. in Occupational Psychology and is a member of the Psychological Society of Ireland and the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM).

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Legal Professional Privilege

Effective Records Management

Health and Safety in the Public Sector

Understanding Workplace ConflictsBullying and Harassment

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Martin Tully and David Coffey are the founding partners and directors of The Clearview Group and they jointly run our very popular Certificate in Public Procurement course. Martin has over 20 years experience in the high tech industry in a variety of senior supply chain management positions. He previously worked for Intel

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Chapter 1 Office of the President of Ireland

The Office of the President of Ireland was established in 1937. The President is the Head of State of the Republic of Ireland, and his formal powers and functions are outlined in Articles 12, 13 and 14 of the Constitution. There have been eight Presidents since 1938; the current President, Michael D Higgins was inaugurated on November 11 2011.

Contact Details and General Information

Áras an Uachtaráin Phoenix ParkDublin 8Tel: 01 6171000 LoCall:1890 430 430Fax: 01 6171001Email: [email protected] Website: www.president.ie Private Secretary: Helen CarneySecretary General to the President: Adrian O’NeillDirector of Office and Deputy Secretary General to the President: Loughlin QuinnAdvisor: Maura Grant Assistant Principals: Brian McAufield; Pauline DoranCommunications Officer: Vacant

Media Advisor: Wally Young

Core areas of responsibility

• Summons and dissolves Dáil Éireann Appoints Taoisigh • Appoints the members of the judiciary• Appoints Attorneys General and Comptrollers and Auditors General• Appoints, accepts resignations, and terminates appointments of cabinet members• Signs bills into law• Vested with the right to pardon• Nominally Supreme Commander of the Defence Forces• Represents Ireland internationally

Under Article 12.2.1, the President is elected by the direct vote of the people. Every citizen aged 35 or over is eligible to run for the office, the term of which is 7 years. A President can be elected for a maximum of 2 terms, and a presidential candidate must be nominated either by a minimum of 20 members of the Oireachtas or by at least four administrative counties (including

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county boroughs). In addition, a former or retiring President may become a candidate on his/her own nomination. When only one candidate is nominated for the Presidency, he/she is deemed elected without the need for a ballot. Under Article 12.6, a President may not be a member of the Oireachtas: if a member of either the Dáil or Seanad is elected to the office of President, they shall be deemed to have vacated their seat within the Oireachtas.

The presidency is not an office with executive powers, and the majority of the functions are exercised on the advice of the Government pursuant to Article 13.9. The President is the Supreme Commander of the Defence Forces in name only, and is directed by the Executive in appointing the judiciary and in the granting of pardons. The President summons and dissolves Dáil Éireann, appoints each new Attorney General, Comptroller and Auditor General and accepts the resignation or terminates the appointment of members of the Government on the advice of the Taoiseach. In addition, the President appoints the Taoiseach on the nomination of Dáil Éireann and the other members of the Government on the nomination of Taoiseach (following Dáil approval). Under Article 25, the President must sign every Bill passed or deemed to have been passed by the Oireachtas on the 5th, 6th or 7th day after is presented to her, unless they refer it to the Supreme Court under Article 26 (see below).

However, there are certain instances in which the President enjoys absolute discretion. For example, they may refuse the Taoiseach’s request for the dissolution of Dáil Éireann, if the latter no longer commands the support of a majority of Dáil Deputies. Article 24 provides that the President may assent to a request from the Taoiseach to have the time for the Seanad to consider a Bill abridged, if there exists a state of “public emergency”. Under Article 26, the President may refer any Bill to the Supreme Court for a judgement as to the constitutionality of the Bill or any part thereof. These discretionary powers are normally exercised following consultation with the Council of State which is composed of the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Chief Justice, the President of the High Court, the Ceann Comhairle, the Cathaoirleach, the Attorney General, 7 appointees of the current President, and every person who has ever held office as President, Taoiseach or Chief Justice.. The President may, in her absolute discretion, decline to follow the advice of the Council.

A President can be dismissed from office where she is found to have become “permanently incapacitated” by the Supreme Court in a sitting of at least 5 judges. In addition, the President may be impeached for “stated mis-behaviour” by either House of the Oireachtas, provided that certain procedural formalities are met. In situations where the President is removed from office, dies whilst in office or is unable or unwilling to perform their functions, a collective vice-presidency known as the Presidential Commission comprising of the Chief Justice, Ceann Comhairle and Cathaoirleach acts in her place.

The current President of Ireland is Michael D. Higgins. He was inaugurated on November 11 2011. Born in Co. Limerick, he attended Ballycar National School, Co. Clare; St. Flannan’s College, Ennis; University College Galway (UCG); Indiana University; and Manchester University. During his academic career he worked as a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at University College Galway. He then entered public life and was appointed to the 13th Seanad in 1973 by Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave. He was elected to the Dáil in 1981 as a member of the Labour party and was re-elected in 1982 only to lose his seat at the next election in the same year. He returned to the Seanad on the NUI panel in 1983 where he served until 1987. He was then re-elected to the Dáil in the 1987 general election where he remained in office until February 2011.

As Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht from 1993 until 1997, President Higgins established the Irish-language broadcaster Teilifís na Gaeilge (now TG4) and reinvigorated the Irish Film industry with the creation of the Irish Film Board. He saw the abolition of the controversial Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act which made it an offence for proscribed organisations, such as Sinn Féin, to speak or be interviewed on Irish radio and television. He also served as President of the Council of Broadcasting Ministers of the European Union during the Irish Presidency of the European Union in 1996. He served as Mayor of Galway on two occasions, 1982-1983 and 1991-1992. He was also a member of the Oireachtas committee on foreign affairs and was spokesperson on foreign affairs for the Labour Party. Aside from his political career, President Higgins is an avid human rights campaigner and was awarded the Seán MacBride Peace Prize from the International Peace Bureau in Helsinki in 1992. He is also a writer and poet and has contributed to many books covering diverse aspects of Irish politics, sociology, history and culture.

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Chapter 2 Department of the Taoiseach

The Department of the Taoiseach is concerned with the carrying out by the Taoiseach of his functions under the Constitution and under statute. It provides the secretariat to the Government. It is the channel of communication between government departments and the President. The Department supports the Government Chief Whip and Minister of State in carrying out the functions delegated or assigned to them. It also has responsibility for the Government Press Service. Under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975, the Taoiseach has statutory responsibilities relating to the reform of the law of the State; the Law Reform Commission, for certain purposes, comes under the aegis of the department. Under the Statistics Acts 1926 and 1946, the Taoiseach has statutory responsibilities relating to the collection, compilation, abstraction and publication of statistics and the Central Statistics Office comes under the aegis of the department. Under the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, the Taoiseach has statutory responsibilities for the administration of all public services that are not the responsibility of any other department.

OfficesDepartment of the TaoiseachGovernment BuildingsUpper Merrion StreetDublin 2.

Main Telephone Number: 01 6194000 LoCall: 1890 227 227

Fax Number: 01 6194297

Email: [email protected]

Email protocol: [email protected]

Website: www.taoiseach.gov.ie


• Supports the efficient functioning of Government• Supports Government policy direction and Government co-ordination

of major national priorities• Provides administrative support to the Taoiseach and the ministers

of State

Introduction

The department also has responsibility for the National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO).


Taoiseach: Enda Kenny TD Appointed: March 2011Political party: Fine GaelContact details for office: Tel: 01 6194020 (Private office); 01 6183613 (Dáil);

01 6194033 (Press)Fax: 01 6764048 (Private office); 01 6763302 (Press)Email: [email protected] (Private office); [email protected] (Press)Special Advisor: Mark KennellyEmail: [email protected] Advisor: Andrew McDowellEmail: [email protected] Secretary: Nick ReddyEmail: [email protected] Officer: Feargal PurcellEmail: [email protected]

Previous ministries: Deputy Kenny was Minister of State at the Department of Education and Labour from 1986 to 1987. He was Minister for Tourism and Trade from 1994 to 1997. Previous committee memberships: Deputy Kenny has served on the joint Oireachtas committees on education and science, health and children, and the Irish language. Previous party positions: Deputy Kenny served as spokesperson on youth affairs and sport from 1977 to 1980; Western development and the Gaeltacht in 1982; the Gaeltacht from 1987 to 1988; regional development in 1994; and arts, heritage, the Gaeltacht and islands from 1997 to 2002. He was Chief Whip from 1992 to 1994 and was elected leader of Fine Gael in June 2002. He also served as chairperson of the Fine Gael economic committee. Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Kenny was a member of Mayo County Council from 1975 to 1995. In 1983, he was a member of the Fine Gael delegation on the New Ireland Forum and from 1991 to 1992 he was a member of the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body. Education/Previous occupation: Enda Kenny attended St Patrick’s College of Education in Dublin and University College Galway. Before entering politics, he worked as a primary school teacher. Electoral history: Enda Kenny was elected to the Dáil for the Mayo constituency in the 1975 by-election, which was called due to the death of his father, Henry Kenny TD. Deputy Enda Kenny has been re-elected to Dáil Éireann in every election since.

Government Chief Whip and Minister of State for Defence: Paul Kehoe TDAppointed: March 2011Political party: Fine Gael

Contact details for Minister’s office: Tel: 01 6194081 (Department); 01 6184473 (Dáil) Fax: 01 6765757Email: [email protected] Secretary: Gary McDonagh; Alice KearneyEmail: [email protected];[email protected] Advisor: Mark O’DohertyEmail: [email protected]

Previous committee memberships: Deputy Kehoe was a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on the Constitution, a member of the Joint Administration Committee, a member of the Dáil Committee on Procedure and Privileges and the Committee on Communications, Marine and Natural Resources.Previous party positions: Deputy Kehoe was Deputy Fine Gael spokesperson on communications, marine and natural resources from 2002 until 2004. He was elected Fine Gael Chief Whip in October 2004. He has also served as Assistant Chief Whip for the party.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Kehoe is a former chairperson of Macra na Feirme and a holder of the prestigious Macra na Feirme National Leadership Award. He was also a Youth Officer for Wexford GAA.Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Kehoe attended Kildalton Agricultural College, County Kilkenny. He was a farmer and worked in sales and marketing for a Wexford based company before entering politics.Electoral history: Paul Kehoe was first elected to the Dáil in May 2002 for the Wexford constituency at the age of 29. He was re-elected in both the May 2007 and February 2011 General Elections.

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Minister of State for European Affairs: Lucinda Creighton TDAppointed: March 2011Political party: Fine Gael

Contact details for Minister’s office:Tel: 01 6194399 (Department of the Taoiseach); 01 4780822 (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade); 01 6183527 (Dáil) Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Secretary: Tony Kavanagh Email: [email protected] Advisor: Stephen O’SheaEmail: [email protected]

Previous committee memberships: Deputy Creighton was a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on European scrutiny and on European affairs from 2007 to 2010. She was also a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on justice, defence, equality and women’s rights from 2007 to 2010..Previous party positions: Deputy Creighton was spokesperson on European affairs. She was also spokesperson on immigration, integration and equality.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Creighton was a member of Dublin City Council from 2004 to 2007. She was also a member of the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee.Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Creighton attended Trinity College Dublin where she obtained an LL.B. in 2002. She qualified as an Attorney at Law for the State of New York in 2003. In 2005, she was called to the Irish Bar. Electoral history: Lucinda Creighton was first elected to the 30th Dáil in 2007 for the Dublin South-East constituency and was re-elected in 2011 for the same constituency.

Opposition Spokespersons

Fianna Fáil: Micheál Martin TD Leinster House Tel: 01 6184350Constituency: Cork South CentralEmail: [email protected]

Sinn Féin: Gerry Adams TD Leinster House Tel: 01 6184442Constituency: LouthEmail: [email protected]

Socialist Party: Joe Higgins TDLeinster House Tel: 01 6183469Constituency: Dublin WestEmail: [email protected]


Oireachtas CommitteesJoint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement According to its Order of Reference, this Committee shall consider: (i) issues arising from Ireland’s role as a signatory to the Good Friday Agreement,(ii) ongoing developments in the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, and (iii) any proposals relating to the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and such related matters as shall be referred to it by the Dáil and/or the Seanad from time to time, and to report back to both Houses of the Oireachtas at least once a year.(ii) The Joint Committee shall have the powers defined in Standing Order 83, other than paragraph (2A), (4A), (4B) and (6A) thereof.(iii) The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (or a member of the Government or Minister of State nominated in his or her stead) shall be an ex officio member of the Committee and shall be entitled to vote in proceedings.(iv) Members of the Westminster Parliament elected from constituencies in Northern Ireland may attend meetings of the Joint Committee and of its sub-Committees and may take part in proceedings without having a right to vote or to move motions and amendments.(v) The Chairman of the Joint Committee shall be a member of Dáil Éireann.

Clerk to the Committee Paul KellyTelephone: 01 618 3167Email: [email protected]

Chairperson Dominic Hannigan (Labour Party)Tel: 01 6184007Email: [email protected]

Deputy Hannigan is currently the sitting TD for Meath East. He was first elected to Seanad Éireann (Industrial and Commercial Panel) in 2007. He was the Labour Party’s Seanad spokesperson on commuter Issues, crime and policing, environment and climate change and community and rural affairs. He was also a member of the Joint Committee on foreign affairs and the Joint Committee on environment, heritage and local government. Elected to Meath County Council for the East Meath area in 2004, he was Chairperson of the Planning and Economic Development Strategic Policy Committee and a board member of Meath Leader. He was educated at University College, Dublin, City University, London and the University of London and is a civil engineer by profession.

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Deputies:Seán Conlan Fine Gael Seán Crowe Sinn Féin)Clare Daly United Left Regina Doherty Fine GaelAlan Farrell Fine GaelFrank Feighan Fine Gael Martin Ferris Sinn FéinLuke ‘Ming’ Flanagan Independent Dominic Hannigan LabourMichael P. Kitt Fianna Fail

Joe McHugh Fine Gael Aodhán Ó Ríordáin Labour Joe O’Reilly Fine Gael Brendan Smith Fianna FáilJoanna Tuffy LabourSenators:Jim D’Arcy Fine GaelMaurice Cummins Fine GaelMartin McAleese IndependentMary Moran Labour

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The DepartmentSecretary General: Martin FraserAppointed: July 2011 Previous positions: Martin Fraser joined the Department of the Taoiseach in 1999 as a Finance Officer having previously served in the Departments of

Social Welfare, Foreign Affairs and Agriculture and Food. Mr. Fraser has been an Assistant Secretary in the Department since 2007, having previously been Director of the Northern Ireland Division. As Assistant Secretary, he has served as Head of Northern Ireland Division, Corporate Affairs Division and Economic & Social Policy Division.Education: He holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from UCD and a Master of Science Degree in economics from Trinity College Dublin.

Second Secretary General: Geraldine Nason ByrneAppointed: July 2011Previous positions: Geraldine Nason Byrne was appointed Ambassador, Deputy Permanent

Representative of Ireland to the EU in 2008 having previously served as Brussels Counsellor for Institutional Affairs from 2005. She was also Director of Ireland’s National Forum on Europe and worked for the OECD for seven years including as Director for Governance and Public Management. Other previous positions held include service in Ireland’s Representation to the United Nations and the OSCE.

Departmental Divisions

(i) Protocol and General DivisionThe protocol and general division of the department of the Taoiseach has responsibility for State protocol, including protocol for the Taoiseach and ministers of State. This involves the organisation of State functions, for example, the national day of commemoration. The division is the point of contact between the President and Government departments and liaises with the Office of the President on an ongoing basis.Other functions of the division include arranging for the enrolment and printing of texts of the Constitution, assisting in the implementation of the Government’s legislative programme and the programme of Oireachtas reform and liaison with the tribunals of enquiry.

The division liaises closely with the Office of the Attorney General, Chief State Solicitor’s Office, Office of the Director of Public Prosecution and the Law Reform Commission. The structure of the division is: • Assistant Secretary: Philip Hamell• Principal Officer: Ray Henry• Assistant Principal: Miriam Dollard; Mary Murphy

(ii) Government Secretariat The structure of the division is: • Assistant Secretary: Philip Hamell• Principal Officer: John Kennedy• Assistant Principals: Edel Cooke; Jerry Kelleher

(iii) Economic and Social PolicyThe structure of the division is: • Assistant Secretary: Vacant• Principal Officers: Eileen Keogh; John Shaw• Assistant Principals: Denis Breen; Catherine Eddery; Mary Clare O’Sullivan; Michael Sludds (IFSC)

(iv) EU DivisionThe structure of the division is: • Second Secretary General: Geraldine Byrne Nason• Assistant Secretary: John Callinan• Principal Officers/Counsellors: Helen Blake; Simon Hare; Geoffrey Keating; Kyle O’Sullivan• Assistant Principals/First Secretaries: Adrian Farrell; Pádraig Francis; Alan Gibbons; Aedan Hall; Stephen Ryan; Aileen Shanahan

(v) Northern Ireland and InternationalThe structure of the division is: • Assistant Secretary: Vacant• Principal Officer: Richard Holland • Assistant Principals: Elaine Kelly; Máire Flanagan


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(vi) Corporate AffairsThe Corporate Services Division of the Department provides support to the rest of the department in achieving its strategic objectives. These supports include HR, Finance, ICT, Library, Registry and Archives, Training and Change Management. The structure of the division is: • Assistant Secretary: Vacant• Principal Officer: Paul McGarry • Assistant Principals: Anthony Cummins (Personnel Officer); Doiminic Dé Buitlear (IT Manager); Pauline Kiernan (Finance Officer); Grainne Hynes; Sinead Nic Coitir (Change Management)

(vii) Government Press SecretaryThe Government Press Secretary and the deputy Government press secretary/head of Government information services (GIS) brief political and other correspondents on Government policy issues. The Government press secretary also advises the Taoiseach on all aspects of media relations and acts as a spokesperson for the Taoiseach and the Government. The press office supports the press secretary and the head of GIS in their role of co-ordinating the media relations of all Government.The structure of the division is: • Government Press Secretary: Feargal Purcell• Deputy Government press secretaries: Cathy Madden• Government Press Officers: Michael Moran; Tom McLoughlin; Jacky Bryan; Geraldine Butler; Andrew Payne

(viii) Internal Audit UnitThis is an independent unit. The structure is: • Principal Officer: Richard Holland

(ix) Programme for GovernmentThe structure is: • Assistant Principal Officer: Sharon Finegan

(x) Tánaiste’s OfficeThe structure is: • Assistant Principal Officer: Brendan Boylan

Agencies and Associated BodiesCentral Statistics OfficeSkehard RoadCorkTel: 021 4535000 LoCall: 1890 313 414Fax: 021 4535555Email: [email protected] Website: www.cso.ie

Director General: Gerry O’HanlonThe CSO was established in 1949, and its functions are enshrined in the Statistics Act 1993, which defines them as “the collection, compilation, extraction and dissemination for statistical purposes of information relating to economic, social and general activities and conditions in the State”.

Ireland Newfoundland Partnership Department of the TaoiseachUpper Merrion Street Dublin 2Tel: 01 6194163 Email: [email protected] Website: www.inp.ie

Chairperson: Vacant Director: Professor Kieran ByrneThe Ireland Newfoundland Partnership was created as a result of an agreement between the heads of Government in Ireland and Newfoundland in recognition of the deep historical links between the two lands. Both governments signed a memorandum of understanding in 1996, which was reaffirmed in 1999 and again in July 2004. The memorandum commits the two governments to explore the possibilities of mutually advantageous cooperation in business, education and cultural activities. The Ireland Newfoundland Partnership Board was established in April 2001 to follow through on the commitments of the memorandum, its sister board in Newfoundland is ‘Ireland Business Partnerships’. Activities to date have centred on a number of trade, technology and cultural missions in each direction.

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Law Reform Commission35-39 Shelbourne RoadBallsbridgeDublin 4Tel: 01 6377600 Fax: 01 6377601Email: [email protected] Website: www.lawreform.ie President: VacantDirector of Research: Raymond Byrne The Law Reform Commission is an independent statutory body corporate established under the Law Reform Commission Act, 1975, to keep the law under review and to make recommendations for its reform. This includes work on consolidation of statutes and statute law revision. For these purposes, ‘the law’ means the whole law of the State, including international law and matters of legal practice and procedure.

National Economic and Social Development Office16 Parnell SquareDublin 1Tel: 01 8146300 LoCall: 1890 203 006Fax: 01 8146301Email: [email protected] Website: www.nesdo.ie

Chairperson: Martin FraserThe National Economic and Social Development Office (NESDO) was established under the terms of the National Economic and Social Development Act, 2006. The office incorporates the National Economic and Social Council (NESC). It also incorporated the National Economic and Social Forum (NESF) and the National Centre for Partnership and Performance (NCPP) until those organizations were dissolved. Its primary role is to add value to the work of its constituent body through collaborative policy development initiatives. In particular, the Office performs its role by: • Facilitating and promoting complementary research, analysis and discussion programmes by the NESC; • providing administration and support services for the NESC; and • Submitting to Government reports, recommendations or conclusions by the NESC and arranging for their publication.

National Economic and Social CouncilEmail: [email protected] Website: www.nesc.ie

Chairperson: Martin FraserDirector: Rory O’Donnell Senior Economist: Dr. Larry O’ConnellSenior Social Policy Analysts: Helen Johnston; Dr. John SweeneyEstablished in November 1973, the functions of the council are to analyse and report to the Taoiseach on strategic issues relating to the efficient development of the economy and the achievement of social justice, and to develop a strategic framework for the conduct of relations and negotiation of agreements between the government and the social partners. The council is chaired by the Secretary General of the Department of the Taoiseach and contains representatives of key government departments, trade unions, farmers’ organisations, NGOs, employers and independent experts.

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Chapter 3 Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht


• Arts, Culture and Film Policy• Cultural Institutions• Heritage• The Irish language• An Ghaeltacht

IntroductionCreated in March 2011, the department occupies a policy-making role in the three sectors of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

The functions of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht encapsulate Built and Natural Heritage, Arts, Film, Music, Cultural Institutions as well as Irish Language, Gaeltacht Schemes and Offshore Islands.

OfficesDepartment of Arts, Heritage and the GaeltachtAn Roinn Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta

Website: www.ahg.gov.ie

Killarney / Cill AirneCill Airne New Road, Killarney, Co. Kerry An Bóthar Nua, Cill Airne, Co. Chiarraí Tel: (064) 662 7300/LoCall: 1890 273000

Dublin / Baile Átha Cliath23 Kildare Street, Dublin 2 / 23 Sráid23 Sráid Chill Dara, Baile Átha Cliath 2Tel: 01 6313800, LoCall: 1890 383000Fax: 01 6611201

Custom House, Dublin 1Teach an Chustaim, Baile Átha Cliath 1Tel: 01 8882000LoCall: 1890 202021

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Ballina / Béal an ÁthaBéal an Átha Government Buildings, Ballina, Co. Mayo Tithe an Rialtais, Béal an Átha, Co. Mhaigh Eo Tel: (096) 24200LoCall 1890 202021

Galway / GallimhNa Forbacha, Co. GalwayNa Forbacha, Co. na Gaillimhe Tel: 091 592555 / 503 700LoCall 1890 201401

Local Gaeltacht officesOifigí áitiúla Gaeltachta An tEastát Tionscail, Na Doirí Beaga, Co. Donegal / An tEastát Tionscail, Na DoiríAn tEastát Tionscail, Na Doirí Beaga, Co. Dhún na nGall Tel: 074 9531598

Tithe an Rialtais, Tralee, Co. Kerry / Tithe anTithe an Rialtais, Trá Lí, Co. Chiarraí Tel: 066 7121303

Wexford / Loch GarmanNewtown Road, Wexford, Co. Wexford / Bóthar an Bhaile Nua, Loch Garman, Co. Loch Garman Tel: 053 9117500LoCall 1890 202021

National Parks & Wildlife Service / An Tseirbhís Páirceanna Náisiúnta & Fiadhúlra7 Ely Place, Dublin 2 / 7 Plás �le, Baile Átha7 Plás �le, Baile Átha Cliath 2Tel: 01 8883242LoCall 1890 202021Website: www.npws.ie

Email Protocol: [email protected]

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Minister of State: Dinny McGinley TDSpecial Responsibility: Gaeltacht AffairsAppointed: March 2011Political party: Fine GaelContact details for Minister’s

office:Tel: 01 6313983 (Department); 01 6183452 (Dáil) Fax: 01 6313818Email: [email protected] Secretary: Dualta O’BroinTel: 01 6313983Email: [email protected] Officer: Margaret O’Gorman Tel: 01 6473075Email: [email protected]

Other current positions: Deputy McGinley has been a member of the British Irish Parliamentary Body since 1993.Previous committee positions: Deputy McGinley was the chairperson of An Comhchoiste don Ghaeilge (Oireachtas committee on the Irish Language) from 1995 to 1997; a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on social affairs and on small business; vice-chairperson of the joint Oireachtas committee on justice, equality, defence and women’s rights; and a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on arts, sport, tourism, community, rural and Gaeltacht affairs.Previous party positions: Deputy McGinley was spokesman on youth affairs from 1987 to 1988; the Gaeltacht from 1988 to 1991; the Gaeltacht and emigrant welfare from 1991 to 1994; youth affairs in 1994; arts, heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands from 2001 to 2002; defence from 2002 to 2004; community, rural and Gaeltacht affairs from 2004 to 2007; and he was deputy spokesperson on community, rural and Gaeltacht affairs with special responsibly for Gaeltacht affairs in the 30th Dáil. Education/Previous occupation: Deputy McGinley was educated at Coláiste �osagáin, Ballyvourney, County Cork, St Patrick’s College of Education, Dublin and University College Dublin. He worked as a teacher before entering politics.Electoral history: Deputy McGinley was first elected to the Dáil in 1982 for the Donegal South-West constituency and has been elected at every election since.

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Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Jimmy Deenihan TD Appointed: March 2011Political party: Fine Gael

Contact details for Minister’s office: Tel: 01 6313800 (Department); 01 6183352 (Dáil); 064 6627300 (Constituency) Email: [email protected] Private Secretary: Sarah DoyleAdvisor: Séan MacCárthaigh; James Kenny

Previous ministries: Jimmy Deenihan was Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry from 1994 to 1997.Previous committee memberships: Deputy Deenihan was a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on justice, equality, defence and women’s rights until July 2010. From July 2010, he was a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on tourism, culture, sport, community, equality and Gaeltacht affairs.Previous party positions: Deputy Deenihan was Fine Gael spokesperson on youth and sports from 1988 to 1992 and spokesperson on tourism and trade from 1992 to 1994. He was party spokesperson on the Office of Public Works from 1997 to 2000. He was junior spokesperson on environmental information and protection from 2000 to 2001. Deputy Deenihan was appointed advisor to the leader on Northern Ireland policy and party spokesperson on sport in February 2001. He also served as party spokesperson for arts, sport and tourism from 2002 to 2007. From 2007 to 2010 he was spokesperson on defence and was reappointed to the role of party spokesperson for Tourism, Culture and Sport in July 2010. Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Deenihan was a member of the Seanad from 1982 to 1987 and was also a member of Kerry County Council from 1985 to 1994. He was re-elected to Kerry Council in 1999. Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Deenihan attended Thomond College of Education and is a former PE teacher.Electoral history: Deputy Deenihan was re-elected for the Kerry North constituency in the February 2011 general election and has held a seat in this constituency since 1987.

Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Minister of State

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Fianna Fáil: Robert Troy TD (Arts and Heritage) Leinster House Tel: 01 6184059Constituency: Longford Westmeath


Fianna Fáil: Michael Kitt TD (Housing, Planning and Gaeltacht Affairs)Leinster House Tel: 01 6183473

Constituency: Galway EastEmail: [email protected]

Sinn Féin: Sandra McLellan TD (Arts, Heritage, Tourism and Sport)Leinster House Tel: 01 6183122Constituency: Cork East


Oireachtas CommitteesJoint Committee on Environment, Transport, Culture and the Gaeltacht

This Committee shadows the activities of the Departments of: • Environment, Community and Local Government; • Transport, Tourism and Sports; and

Deputies:

James Bannon Fine Gael

Paudie Coffey Fine Gael

Niall Collins Fianna Fail

Noel Coonan Fine Gael

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy Fine Gael

Clare Daly United Left

Timmy Dooley Fianna Fail

Dessie Ellis Sinn Féin

Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan Independent

Terence Flanagan Fine Gael

Kevin Humphreys Labour

Seán Kenny Labour

Ciarán Lynch Labour

Sandra McLellan Sinn Féin

Tony McLoughlin Fine Gael

Catherine Murphy Independent

Gerald Nash Labour

Patrick O’Donovan Fine Gael

Brian Stanley Sinn Féin

Robert Troy Fianna Fáil

Brian Walsh Fine Gael

Senators:

Eamonn Coghlan Independent

Cáit Keane Fine Gael

Denis Landy Labour

Catherine Noone Fine Gael

Labhrás Ó’Murchú Fianna Fáil

Ned O’Sullivan Fianna Fáil

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• Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.This Committee covers important areas of public policy in the fields of transport, the environment, culture and the Gaeltacht, including: achieving balanced regional development; environmental protection; addressing climate change; managing national and local transport issues; and promoting the development of Gaeltacht areas.The Committee conducts inquiries into areas of current interest within its remit. At the end of an inquiry, the Committee will usually produce a report setting out its findings and making recommendations to the Government.

Clerk to the CommitteeEugene Ó Cruadhlaoich / Sinead QuinnEmail: [email protected]/ [email protected]: 01 6183575/01 6183102

Chairperson: Ciarán Lynch (Labour) Tel: 01 6183666Email: [email protected]

Deputy Lynch is the Cork Central West representative since 2007 and was part of the Labour Party’s National election committee for local and European elections in 2009. He was a member of the previous Select and Joint committees on environment, heritage and local government. Previous to this Deputy Lynch was involved in the Cork City and County Council Joint committee for three years. He was educated at University College Cork and Waterford Institute of Technology.

The DepartmentSecretary General: Seosamh Ó hÁghmaill

Appointed: January 2010 Private Secretary: Sinéad O’ HaraContact details for Secretary General’s office: 01 6313809

Previous positions: Seosamh Ó hÁghmaill first began working in the public service in the 1970s. He has previously served as policy advisor at the Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands and as Assistant Secretary of Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs during which time he was responsible for the Irish language and the Gaeltacht, charities regulation, North-South cooperation, the community and voluntary sector, local and community development programmes, offshore islands and a range of corporate functions including financial management, human resources and corporate governance.Education: Mr Ó hÁghmaill was educated at Dundalk was educated at Dundalk CBS and at University College Dublin.


(i) Corporate Affairs:• Assistant Secretary: John Collins• Principal Officers: Conor Falvey (Finance,

Accounts, It and VFM); Mary Hurley (HR, Strategic Planning, Corporate Governance, N/S Co-ordination & Waterways Irl.); Emer O’ Connell (Corporate Communications, Organisation, Procurement, Training & Development; EU Affairs)

• Assistant Principals: Joe Healy (Accountant); Kathleen Hannigan; Lorna Conway; Richard McElligott; Eddie Arthurs; Betty Griffin; John McElligott; Trevor Donnelly; Paul Connolly; John Healy; Sinéad Copeland; Siobhan Stack

(ii) Arts, Film, Music, Cultural Institutions• Assistant Secretary: Niall Ó Donnchú• Principal Officers: Chris Flynn (Arts & Cultural

Institutions); Kevin Lonergan (Cultural Institutions); Mary Nash (Arts, Film & Music); Eugene Downes (CEO Culture Ireland)

• Assistant Principals: Sabina O’Donnel; Declan

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Secretary General:

Seosamh Ó hÁghmaill

Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

Assistant Secretary:

John Collins

Corporate Affairs


Niall Ó Donnchú

Arts, Film and Music

Cultural Institutions

Assistant Secretary: Feargal O Coigligh

HeritageGaeilge,

Gaeltacht & Islands

Director of Irish:

Maire Killoran

Director of Translations

Tomás Ó Ruairc

Central Translations

Unit & Placenames

Unit

Central Translations

Unit & Placenames

Chief Placenames

Officer: Dónal

Mac Giolla Easpaig

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Brennan; Orlaith Gleeson; Breda Moynihan; Christine Sisk; Madeline Boughton; Conor O’ Malley

(iii). Heritage• Assistant Secretary: Feargal Ó Coigligh• Principal Officers: Terry Allen (National

Monuments); Brian Lucas (NPWS – Property Management); Brian K Duffy (Chief Archaeologist); John Fitzgerald (NPWS – Parks & Regions); Martin Colreavy (Built Heritage & Architectural Policy); Ciaran O’ Keeffe (NPWS – Science & Biodiversity); Conor O’ Raghallaigh (NPWS – Legislation & EU Compliance)

• Assistant Principals: Dr Andy Bleasdale (Wildlife Inspector Grade I); Eamon Cody; Paul Walsh & Ann Lynch (Senior Archaeologists); Frank Donnelly; Freddie O’ Dwyer & Willy Cumming (Senior Architects); Philip Buckley; Pat Warner & Jim Moore (Divisional Managers); Jervis Good; Julie Fossitt; William Cormacan & Linda Patton (Divisional Ecologists); Catriona Ryan; Patricia Curran; David Smith; Margaret Carroll; Rónán Whelan; Frank O’ Donohoe; Peter Carvill; Liam O’ Reilly; Gerry Leckey; Mark Bohan

(iii) Gaeilge, Gaeltacht & Islands • Director of Irish: Maire Killoran• Principal Officers: Beirti Ó hAinmhire (Gaeltacht

& Islands Policy & Programmes); Seamus Mac Ghiolla Chomhaill (Irish Lanaguage Policy, An Foras Teanga, Údarás na Gaeltachta)

• Assistant Principals: E. Mac Goill; P Mac Aodha; P Mac Diarmada; S. Ó Conchubhar (Cigire agus Maoirseioí); Bríd Ní Chonghaile; Seán Mac Eoin; Breandán Ó Súilleabhán; O. Ó hIarlfhlaithe; Aodhán Mac Cormaic; Helena O’ Brien; Seán Ó Leidhinn; Diarmuid Ó Mórdha

(v) Central Translations Unit & Placenames• Director of Translations: Tomás Ó Ruairc• Aistritheoir Grád II: Nóilín Ní Iarnáin• Chief Placenames Officer: Dónal Mac Giolla

Easpaig

Agencies and Associated BodiesArchbishop Marsh’s LibrarySt. Patrick’s CloseDublin 8Tel: 01 4543511Fax: 01 4543511Email: [email protected] Website: www.marshlibrary.ie

Keeper of the Library: Dr Jason McElligottArchbishop Marsh’s Library was the first public library in Ireland. It contains over 25,000 books relating to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, covering medicine, music, law, travel, science, mathematics, navigation, surveying and classical literature.

Arts Council (An Chomhairle Ealaíon)70 Merrion SquareDublin 2Tel: 01 6180200 LoCall: 1850 392 492Fax: 01 6761302Email: [email protected] Website: www.artscouncil.ie

Chairperson: Pat MoylanDirector: Orlaith McBrideThe Arts Council was established in 1951 as an autonomous body and is the national agency for the promotion and development of the arts in Ireland. It is a voluntary body of 12 members and a chair, appointed by the Minister for a period of five years.

Coimisiún Logainmneacha (The Placenames Commission)Dún Aimhirgin43-49 Mespil RoadDublin 4Tel: 01 6473260Fax: 01 6473270Email: [email protected] Website: www.logainm.ie

Chairperson: Seosamh Ó Braonáin Secretary and Chief Placenames Officer: Dónall Mac Giolla Easpaig. Established in 1946, the Placenames Commission advises on the research of the placenames of Ireland

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and provides authoritative Irish forms of those names for official and public use.Note: According to the programme for public service reform, published on November 17, the functions of the Placenames Commission will be absorbed into the Department. At the time of publication no firm date was given.

Chester Beatty Library (Leabharlann Chester Beatty)Dublin Castle Dublin 2 Tel: 01 4070750 Fax: 01 4070760 Email: [email protected] Website: www.cbl.ie

Chairperson: Dr. Thomas P. Hardiman Director: Fionnuala CrokeThe Chester Beatty Library is an art museum and library which houses a collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and decorative arts assembled by Sir Alfred Chester Beatty.

Council of National Cultural Institutions (An Chomhairle um Institiúidí Náisiúnta Cultúrtha)23 Kildare StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6313838Email: [email protected] Website: www.cnci.ie

Chairperson: Peter MurrayThe Council of National Cultural Institutions is a statutory body established under the Heritage Fund Act, 2001. The purpose of the Council is to facilitate the pooling together of the directors of the National Cultural Institutions in furtherance of the national cultural interest and to make recommendations to the Minister on proposed acquisitions using the Heritage Fund.

Crawford Art Gallery Cork Ltd. (Áiléar Crawford)Emmet PlaceCork Tel: 021 4805042Fax: 021 4805043 Email: [email protected] Website: www.crawfordartgallery.ie

Chairperson: John Bowen Director: Peter Murray Crawford Art Gallery, the city art museum for Cork, is dedicated to informing the public of the role that the visual arts play in contemporary life and culture. In 2006, a new company was established by the Minister to manage the Gallery. Ownership of the building was transferred to the Office of Public Works, and the Gallery designated a National Cultural Institution. Note: Under Budget 2009, and the programme for public service reform, published on November 17 2011, the Crawford Art Gallery will be combined with the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Ireland, while retaining its separate identity. At the time of publication no firm date was given.

Culture Ireland (Cultúr Éireann)Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Room 315 23 Kildare Street Dublin 2 Tel: 01 6313905Fax: 01 6313956Email: [email protected]: www.cultureireland.gov.ie

Chief Executive: Eugene DownesCulture Ireland creates and supports opportunities for Irish artists and companies to present and promote their work at strategic international festivals, venues, showcases and markets. Note: According to the programme for public service reform, published on November 17, the functions of Culture Ireland are to be merged into the Department. At the time of publication, no firm date was given.

Foras TeangaSee contact details for the two agencies constituting An Foras Teanga below.An Foras Teanga is a cross-border implementation body set up under the British-Irish agreement of 1999. It is comprised of two separate agencies: Foras na Gaeilge, which has as its objective the promotion of the Irish language on the island of Ireland and the Ulster-Scots Agency, which aims to promote the Ulster-Scotch culture and language generally.

(i) Foras na Gaeilge7 Merrion SquareDublin 2

Tel: 01 639 8400 / 1850 325325 / 0845 3098142 (NI)Fax: 01639 8401

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Chairperson: Liam Ó MaolmhichílDirector: Pádraig Mac Criostail

(ii) The Ulster-Scots Agency68-72 Great Victoria Street,Belfast BT2 7BBTel: 028-90231113 Fax: 028-90231898Email: [email protected] Website: www.ulsterscotsagency.com

Chairperson: Mr Tom Scot OBE Chief Executive: Ian Crozier

Heritage Council (An Chomhairle Oidhreachta)Áras na hOidhreachta Church Lane KilkennyTel: 056 7770777Fax: 056 7770788Email: [email protected] Website: www.heritagecouncil.ie:

Chairperson: Conor NewmanChief Executive: Michael StarrettThe Heritage Council was established under the Heritage Act 1995 to develop policies and priorities for the identification, protection and preservation of Ireland’s national heritage.Note: According to the programme for public service reform, published on November 17, the functions of the Council are to be merged into the Department. At the time of publication, no firm was given.

Irish Film Board (Bord Scannán na hÉireann)Queensgate23 Dock RoadGalway Tel: 091 561398Fax: 091 561405Email: [email protected] Website: www.irishfilmboard.ie

Chairperson: James Morris Chief Executive: James Hickey The Irish Film Board (IFB) is Ireland’s national film agency – it is responsible for supporting and promoting the Irish film industry and the use of Ireland as a location for international film production.

Irish Manuscripts Commission (Coimisiún Lámhscríbhinní na hÉireann) 45 Merrion SquareDublin 2Tel: 01 6761610Fax: 01 6623832Email: [email protected] Website: www.irishmanuscripts.ie

Chairperson: James McGuireEstablished in 1928, the Irish Manuscripts Commission is committed to promoting public awareness of primary source materials and their importance for the history, heritage and culture of Ireland. Through its publication programme, the Commission brings these sources to the widest possible readership both nationally and internationally. Note: According to the programme for public service reform, published on November 17 the National Archives and the Irish Manuscripts Commission will be merged into the National Library while they will retain separate identities. At the time of publication no firm date was given for the merger.

Irish Museum of Modern Art (Áras Nua-Ealaíne na hÉireann)Royal HospitalMilitary RoadKilmainham Dublin 8Tel: 01 6129900Fax: 01 6129999Email: [email protected] Website: www.imma.ie

Chairperson: Eoin McGonigalDirector: Enrique Juncosa The Irish Museum of Modern Art was established by the Government of Ireland in 1990 as Ireland’s first national institution for the presentation and collection of modern and contemporary art. The museum’s mission is “to foster within society an awareness, understanding and involvement in the visual arts through policies and programmes which are excellent, innovative and inclusive”. Note: Under Budget 2009, the Irish Museum of Modern Art will be combined with the Crawford Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Ireland, while retaining separate identities. At the time of publication no firm date was given.

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National Archives (An Chartlann Náisiúnta)Bishop StreetDublin 8IrelandTel: 01 4072300 LoCall: 1890 252 424Fax: 01 4072333Email: [email protected] Website: www.nationalarchives.ie

Director: Dr. David V. CraigThe National Archives, established on 1 June 1988, took over the functions previously performed by the State Paper Office (1702) and the Public Record Office of Ireland (1867). The mission of the National Archives is to (i) secure the preservation of records relating to Ireland which warrant preservation as archives and to (ii) ensure that appropriate arrangements are made for public access to archives. Note: Under Budget 2009, the National Archives will be merged into the National Library. At the time of publication no firm date was given.Note: According to the programme for public service reform, published on November 17 the National Archives and the Irish Manuscripts Commission will be merged into the National Library while they will retain separate identities. At the time of publication no firm date was given for the merger.

National Concert Hall (An Ceoláras Náisiúnta)Earlsfort TerraceDublin 2Tel: 01 4170077 Fax: 01 4170078 Email: [email protected] Website: www.nch.ie

Chairperson: Kieran TobinChief Executive Officer: Simon Taylor The National Concert Hall was opened in 1981. It is currently committed to a redevelopment plan on Earlsfort Terrace which will see the construction of a new auditorium with seating for up to 2000 patrons alongside the renovation of the current Hall and the building of a smaller 400-seater recital Hall.

National Gallery of Ireland (Gailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann)Merrion Square WestDublin 2Tel: 01 6615133Fax: 01 6615372 Email: [email protected] Website: www.nationalgallery.ie

Chairperson: Olive BraidenDirector: Seán RainbirdThe National Gallery of Ireland was established under the National Gallery of Ireland Acts, 1854 to 1963, and houses the national collection of Irish art and European master paintings. The Gallery’s mission is “to display, conserve, manage, interpret and develop the National Collection; to enhance enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts and to enrich the cultural, artistic and intellectual life of present and future generations.” Note: Under Budget 2009, the National Gallery of Ireland will be combined with the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Crawford Gallery. At the time of publication no firm date was given.

National Library of Ireland (Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann)Kildare StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6030200 Fax: 01 6612523 Email: [email protected] Website: www.nli.ie

Chairperson: David HarveyDirector: Fiona RossThe National Library of Ireland was established by the Dublin Science and Art Museum Act 1877, which provided that the bulk of the collections in the possession of the Royal Dublin Society should be vested in the then Department of Science and Art for the benefit of the public and the Society, and for the purposes of the Act. With effect from 3 May 2005, the National Library of Ireland was established as an autonomous National Cultural Institution under the provisions of the National Cultural Institutions Act 1997. Its mission is to collect, preserve and make accessible the documentary and intellectual record of the life of Ireland and to contribute to the provision of access to the larger universe of recorded knowledge. The Genealogical Office, the Office of the Chief Herald in Kildare Street, and the National Photographic Archive in Temple Bar are all part of the National Library. Note: According to the programme for public service reform, published on November 17 the National

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Archives and the Irish Manuscripts Commission will be merged into the National Library while they will retain separate identities. At the time of publication no firm date was given for the merger. The programme also states that the issue of shared services and the board structure of the National Library of Ireland are to be examined by the Department.

National Museum of Ireland (Ard-Mhúsaem na hÉireann)Collins BarracksBenburb StreetDublin 7Tel: 01 6777444 LoCall: 1890 687 386Fax: 01 6777450 Email: [email protected] Website: www.museum.ie

Chairperson: Dr. John O’Mahony SCDirector: Dr. Patrick F. WallaceThe National Museum of Ireland today consists of four separate museum buildings, three of which are situated in Dublin and one in Castlebar, Co. Mayo. The National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology and History is situated on Kildare Street, Dublin 2 and was the original home of the Dublin Museum of Science and Art which opened in 1890. The National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts and History, located at Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7, opened in 1997 and is the administrative headquarters of the National Museum of Ireland. The National Museum of Ireland - Natural History, Merrion Street, Dublin 2 belonged to the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) and has been open to the public since 1857. The most recent addition to the National Museum is the National Museum of Ireland Country Life, Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co. Mayo which opened in 2001. Note: According to the programme for public service reform, published on November 17, the issue of shared services and the board structure of the National Museum of Ireland are to be examined by the Department. At the time of publication, no further information was available.

Údarás na GaeltachtaNa ForbachaCo. na GaillimheTel: 091 503100Fax: 091 503101Email: [email protected] Website: www.udaras.ie

Chairperson: Liam Ó CuinneagáinChief Executive: Sean O Labhrai (Acting) Established in 1980, Údarás na Gaeltachta has a number of core functions, including economic development and the creation of sustainable jobs. It also focuses on attracting investment to the Gaeltacht regions with community, cultural and language-development activities, working in partnership with local communities and organisations. In addition to its main headquarters in Galway, it has regional offices in Cork, Donegal, Kerry and Mayo.

Waterways Ireland2 Sligo RoadEnniskillenCo FermanaghBT74 7JYFTel: 0044 (0) 28 66 323 004Fax: 0044 (0) 28 66 346 257Email: [email protected] Website: www.waterwaysireland.org

Chief Executive: John MartinWaterways Ireland is a cross-border implementation body established under the Belfast Agreement of 1999, with responsibility for the management, maintenance, development and restoration of inland navigable waterways, principally for recreational purposes. The agency’s headquarters are in Enniskillen, with regional offices in Carrick-on-Shannon, Dublin and Scariff.

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Chapter 4 Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

Core areas of responsibility• Broadcasting policy• Broadcasting service development• Greener homes domestic grant scheme• Energy efficiency & planning• Oil & coal supply • Corporate electricity regulation• Natural gas• North-South energy co-operation

• Peat• Communication infrastructure• Communication and digital enterprise legislation• Inland fisheries sectors• Minerals Development Act• Indigenous oil and gas resources

IntroductionThe department’s portfolio includes responsibility for the development and regulation of high quality, world class telecommunication and broadcasting services and regulating, protecting and developing the natural resources of Ireland. Under the energy portfolio, the department has responsibility for maintaining the security of national energy supply through regulation of the oil, gas and electricity sectors and the development of sustainable and renewable energies. The department also has responsibility for ensuring maximum benefit from the exploration, exploitation and development of Irish oil, gas and mineral resources through the petroleum affairs and exploration and mining divisions and the Geological Survey of Ireland.In October 2007, it was decided to transfer the remainder of the marine portfolio including responsibility for sea fisheries licensing, seafood policy and coastal zone management to the Department of Agriculture and Food, which is now the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Responsibility for inland fisheries was retained in the department as part of the natural resources portfolio.

Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, 29-31 Adelaide RoadDublin 2(Main Office)

Beggars BushHaddington RoadDublin 4 (Geological Survey of Ireland, Exploration & Mining Division)

Elm HouseEarls Vale RoadCavan(Finance Unit, Customer Service Unit, FOI Unit and Corporate Services Unit)

Leeson Lane, Dublin 2(Petroleum Affairs Division)

Main Telephone Number: 01 6782000 LoCall: 1890 449900Customer Service Helpdesk: Tel: 01 6782070 LoCall: 1890 449 900Email: [email protected] Numbers: 01 6782179 (Adelaide Road)01 6781782 (Haddington Road)01 6783057 (Cavan)Emai: [email protected] protocol: [email protected] Website: www.dcenr.gov.ie


Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Pat Rabbitte TDAppointed: March 2011

Political party: Labour Party Contact details for the Minister’s office: Tel: 01 6789807 (Department); 01 6183772 (Dáil); 01 6782011 (Constituency Office)Fax: 01 6782029Email: [email protected] (Department) Private Secretary: Jonathan Harte Special Advisors: Finbarr O’Malley; Simon Nugent

Previous ministries: Deputy Rabbitte was Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise with special responsibility for commerce, science and technology and consumer affairs from 1994 to 1997.Previous committee memberships: Deputy Rabbitte most recently sat on the joint Oireachtas committee on justice, equality, defence and women’s rights and was a member of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission. In 2010, he was appointed to the Dáil public accounts committee.Previous party positions: Deputy Rabbitte was Labour party leader from October 2002 until August 2007. Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Rabbitte was a member of Dublin County Council from 1985 to 1995 and he was elected to South Dublin County Council in 1999. Deputy Rabbitte was president of the Union of Students in Ireland from 1972 to 1974 and subsequently joined the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union (now SIPTU), and became its national secretary in 1980.Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Rabbitte was educated at University College Galway (UCG). He was a trade union official before becoming a full-time public representative.Electoral history: Deputy Rabbitte has represented Dublin South-West continuously since 1989 as a member of the Workers Party, then Democratic Left and now as a Labour Party TD.

Minister of State: Fergus O’Dowd TD Special Responsibility: NewEra projectAppointed: March 2011Political party: Fine GaelContact details for the

Minister’s office:Tel: 01 6782024 (Department); 01 6183078; 041 9842275 (Constituency)Fax: 01 6610061 (Department); 041 9870282 (Constituency)Email: minister.o’[email protected] Secretary: Áine McHugh

Other current positions: Deputy O’Dowd is a full Irish member of the Parliamentary Delegation to the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body. Previous committee positions: In the 30th Dáil, Deputy O’Dowd sat on the joint Oireachtas committees on economic regulatory affairs; transport; the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement; and the committee on education and skills.Previous party positions: Deputy O’Dowd was spokesperson on environment, heritage and local Government and on community, rural and Gaeltacht affairs in the 29th Dáil. In the 30th Dáil, he was spokesperson on the transport and marine and on education and skills.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy O’Dowd served on Louth County Council from 1979 to 2003, was a member of Drogheda Corporation from 1974 to 2003 and served three terms as Mayor of Drogheda: from 1977 to 1978, 1981 to 1982 and 1994 to 1995. He was also a member of the 21st Seanad from 1999 to 2002. Education/Previous occupation: Deputy O’Dowd worked as a teacher before entering politics. Electoral history: Deputy O’Dowd was first elected to the 29th Dáil in 2002 for the Louth constituency and was re-elected in May 2007 and again in February 2011.

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Fianna Fáil: Eamon O Cuív TDLeinster House Tel: 01 6184231Constituency: Galway WestEmail: [email protected]

Sinn Féin: Martin Ferris TDLeinster House Tel: 01 6184248Constituency: Kerry North-West LimerickEmail: [email protected]

Oireachtas CommitteesJoint Committee on Communications, Natural Resources and Agriculture According to its terms of reference, the Joint Committee may consider the following matters in respect of the relevant Department or Departments and associated public bodies, and report thereon to both Houses of the Oireachtas:• matters of policy for which the Minister is officially responsible,• public affairs administered by the Department,• policy issues arising from Value for Money and Policy Reviews conducted or commissioned by the Department,• Government policy in respect of bodies under the aegis of the Department,• policy issues concerning bodies which are partly or wholly funded by the State or which are established or appointed by a member of the Government or the Oireachtas,• the general scheme or draft heads of any Bill published by the Minister,• statutory instruments, including those laid or laid in draft before either House or both Houses and those made under the European Communities Acts 1972

Deputies:

Tom Barry Fine Gael

Michael Colreavy Sinn Féin

Pat Deering Fine Gael

Robert Dowds Labour

Andrew Doyle Fine Gael

Martin Ferris Sinn Féin

Noel Harrington Fine Gael

Martin Heydon Fine Gael

Colm Keaveney Labour

Mattie McGrath Independent

Michael McNamara Labour

Michael Moynihan Fianna Fail

Éamon Ó Cuív Fianna Fáil

John O’Mahony Fine Gael

Thomas Pringle Independent

Senators:

Michael Comiskey Fine Gael

Paschal Mooney Fianna Fáil

Pat O’Neill Fine Gael

Mary Ann O’Brien Indpendent

Brian Ó Domhnaill Fianna Fáil

John Whelan Labour

Members


to 2009,strategy statements laid before either or both Houses of the Oireachtas pursuant to the Public Service Management Act 1997,• annual reports or annual reports and accounts, required by law, and laid before either or both Houses of the Oireachtas, of the Department or relevant bodies and the overall operational results, statements of strategy and corporate plans of such bodies, and(such other matters as may be referred to it by the Dáil and/or Seanad from time to time.

Clerk to the CommitteeJosie BriodyEmail: [email protected]: 01 6183717

ChairpersonAndrew Doyle(Fine Gael)Tel: 01 6183611Email: [email protected]

Also a member of the Joint Administration Committee, Deputy Doyle was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 2007 where he was appointed Deputy Spokesperson on Agriculture with special responsibility for food and Horticulture by Enda Kenny TD. He became a member of Wicklow County Council from 1999 when he was elected to represent Wicklow East. He remained a member until 2006 having served as Chairman from 2005 to 2006.

The DepartmentSecretary General: Aidan Dunning Appointed: September 2007Private Secretary: Margaret MulhallContact details for Secretary General’s office:

Tel: 01 6782032

Previous position: Aidan Dunning was an assistant secretary at Department of Finance during which time he was involved in public expenditure policy in the areas of transport and environment. He also coordinated the drafting at official level of the National Development Plan 2007-2013. He worked in the Department of the Taoiseach in the mid 1990s on European policy and was closely involved in the 1996 Irish presidency.Education/Qualifications: Mr Dunning holds a degree in economics and politics from University of Dublin, Trinity College.


(i) Energy DivisionThis division’s primary function is to provide a strategic overview for the department on cross sectoral energy related issues. The division acts as a contact point for the energy sector at the interface with Government and represents the department at appropriate international fora. Key objectives for this division include the development of a competitive energy supply industry, ensuring security and reliability of energy supply, and the development of energy conservation and end-use efficiency. The structure of the division is:

• Deputy Secretary General: Sara White • Chief Technical Advisor: Bob Hanna• Renewable and Sustainable Energy - Principal Officers: Martin Finucane - Assistant Principals: Una Dixon; John Rice• Energy Planning North-South - Principal Officer: Vacant- Assistant Principal: Brian McSharry• Oil Security and Energy Corporate

Governance- Principal Officer: Aoife MacEvilly - Assistant Principal: Bill Morrissey• Electricity and Gas Regulation - Principal Officer: Una Nic Giolla Choille- Assistant Principals: Bernie Comey; Rebecca

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- Principal Officer: Vacant- Assistant Principal: Carmel Fields• Energy Efficiency and Affordability - Principal Officer: St John O’Connor- Assistant Principal: Eamonn Confrey• Energy Attaché: Michael Goodwin (Brussels)

(ii) Corporate DivisionCorporate units are concerned with the internal workings of the department and comprise of:

• Accounts, which is based in Elm House, Earlsvale Road, Cavan

• Appointments/Jobs Human Resources, which is based in Adelaide Road, Dublin 2

• Corporate Services Accommodation and Health and Safety

• Purchase to Pay and Travel Desk, which is based in Elm House, Earlsvale Road, Cavan

• Finance and Planning, which is based in Elm House, Earlsvale Road, Cavan

• Information Systems (IT), which is based in Adelaide Road, Dublin 2

• Internal Audit Unit, which is based in Elm House, Earlsvale Road, Cavan

• Co-ordination Unit (EU, North/South, Domestic Policy and Disability), which is based in Elm House, Earlsvale Road, Cavan

• Freedom of Information Unit which is based in Elm House, Earlsvale Road, Cavan

• Staff Development Unit, which is based in Elm House, Earlsvale Road, Cavan

• Strategic Change Unit, which is based in Elm House, Earlsvale Road, Cavan

- Assistant Secretary: Michael Manley• Human Resources - Principal Officer: Patricia Cronin- Assistant Principal: Ciara Bates • Corporate Finance and Planning (incl. Finance

Management, Evaluation and Compliance, Accounts)

- Principal Officer: Brian Carroll - Assistant Principals: Anne Ward; Brian Walsh • Staff Development/Strategic Change/

Corporate Governance: - Principal Officer: Denis Maher - Assistant Principal: Caroline Henry; John

Donohoe• Corporate Services (incl. Accommodation,

Health and Safety, Purchase to Pay, Travel Desk, Decentralisation, FOI and Co-ordination, North/South, EU, Disability):

- Principal Officer: Denis Maher- Assistant Principals: Fintan McPhillips; Frank

O’Brien

• Internal Audit - Head of Unit: Ronan Tiernan • Information Systems - Principal Officer: Patricia Cronin - Assistant Principals: Valerie McIlwee

(iii) Communications & Broadcasting DivisionThis division aims to develop a policy and legislative framework to facilitate the provision of quality broadcasting services in Ireland, and to optimise the opportunities presented by the emerging technologies for the provision of new Irish-based broadcasting services. The division also seeks to ensure that the approach taken to issues arising from the convergence of telecommunications and broadcasting will optimise the contribution of broadcasters, programme makers, other product generators, infrastructure operators and other participants in broadcasting-related activities to the development of the Information Society in Ireland. The division’s core policy objective is “to contribute to sustained macro-economic growth and competitiveness and ensure that Ireland is best placed to avail of the emerging opportunities provided by the information and knowledge society, by promoting investment in state of the art infrastructures, by providing a supportive legislative and regulatory environment and by developing a leading edge research and development reputation in the information, communications and digital technologies.”

The structure of the division is: • Assistant Secretaries: Katherine Licken

(Communications); Eamonn Molloy (Broadcasting)

• Broadcasting Policy - Principal Officer: Éanna Ó Conghaile - Assistant Principals: Neasa Lehane; Jeny

O’Hora; Richard Browne - Staff Engineer: Susan Fleming• Communications (Business & Technology): - Director: Roger O’Connor - Telecommunication Adviser/Specialist: Aidan

Ryan - Staff Engineer: Rory Hinchy• Communications (Development) - Principal Officer: Dave Hanley - Assistant Principals: Sean Griffin; Finola Rossi;

Derek Byrne- Staff Engineer: Caoimhin Smith• Knowledge Society- Principal Officer: Dave Hanley- Assistant Principals: Albert Jordan; Tim

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Sara White

Assistant Secretary:Katherine Licken

(Communications); Eamonn Molloy (Broadcasting)

Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Broadcasting Policy

Energy PlanningCommunications

(Business & Technology)

Oil Supply, Oil, Gas and Grid

Peat Corporate

Corporate Division

AccountsAppointments/Jobs Human Resources

Appointments/Jobs Human Resources

Corporate Services Accommodation and Health and

Safety

Secretary General:

Aidan Dunning

Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

Electricity and Gas Regulation

Electricity (Corporate) and

North/South Energy

Communications (Development)

Knowledge Society

Assistant Secretary: Michael Manley

Inland Fisheries

Exploration and Mining

Petroleum Affairs

Geological Survey of Ireland

Energy AttachéEnergy Efficiency

Purchase to Pay and Travel Desk

Finance and Planning

Information Systems (IT),

Internal Audit Unit,

Communications Policy Division

Co-ordination Unit

Freedom of Information Unit

Staff Development Unit

Strategic Change Unit

Corporate Finance and Planning (incl. Finance Management, Evaluation and Compliance, Accounts)

Communications Attachés:

Energy Division Natural Resources

Division

- Assistant Principals: Majella O’Dea; Eugene Dillon; Derek Hickey; Brendan Whelan

• Communications Attachés: Cathy O’Connor (Washington); Ken Cleary (Singapore); Richard O’Reilly (Brussels)

(iv) Natural Resources DivisionThis division is comprised of four sub-divisions: Inland Fisheries, Exploration and Mining, Petroleum Affairs and Geological Survey of Ireland. The inland fisheries division is responsible for matters relating to the protection, development, conservation and management of inland fisheries, for legislation and legal matters, for liaising with the North Atlantic

Salmon Conservation Organisation, for the salmon tagging scheme and for corporate governance of inland fisheries Ireland and the Loughs Agency. The exploration and mining division is responsible for the application of the Minerals Development Act to minerals exploration and development, for the encouragement of the early identification and responsible development by private investors of Ireland’s minerals deposits, and for enhancing Ireland’s attractiveness for national and international minerals investment through promotional activities. The petroleum affairs division is charged with maximising the benefits to the State from exploration for and production of indigenous oil and gas resources, while ensuring that activities are conducted safely with due


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regard to their environmental impact. The Geological Survey of Ireland is responsible for the provision of geological advice and information.

The structure of the division is:

• Assistant Secretary: Michael Manley• Inland Fisheries - Principal Officer: Frank Sheridan- Assistant Principals: Deirdre de Brún; Des

Hackett • Exploration and Mining - Principal Officer: Mairead McCabe - Assistant Principals: Brian Breslin; John King - Principal Geologist: Dr Eibhlin Doyle - Senior Geologists: Wayne Cox; John Pyne• Petroleum Affairs - Principal Officer: Ciarán Ó hÓbáin - Assistant Principals: Jim Whelan; Orla Ryan - Petroleum Exploration Specialists: Peter

Croker; Noel Murphy • Geological Survey of Ireland - Director: Vacant- Assistant Director: Patrick O’Connor- Principal Officer: Raphael Kelly - Chief Superintendents: Padraig Connaughton;

Archie Donovan - Principal Geologists: John Morris; Koen

Verbruggen - Senior Geologists: Mary Carter; Ronnie

Creighton; Sean Cullen; Sarah Gatley; Natalya Hunter-Williams; Monica Lee; Brian McConnell; Ray Scanlon; Gerard Stanley

Agencies and Associated BodiesAn PostGeneral Post OfficeO’Connell StreetDublin 1Tel: 01 7057600 LoCall: 1850 575 859Fax: 01 8090900Email: [email protected] Website: www.anpost.ie

Chairperson: John FitzgeraldChief Executive: Donal ConnellA state-owned company since 1984, An Post provides a wide range of services encompassing postal, communication, retail and money transmission services. Its core functions include the administration of a variety of delivery services including parcel service; deposit accounts courier service and Swiftpost, the running of the National lottery through a subsidiary company, and banking services (through AIB).

Bord GáisGasworks Road CorkTel: 021 4534000 Fax: 021 4534249Email: [email protected]: www.bordgais.ie

Chairperson: Rose HynesChief Executive: John MullinsBord Gáis Éireann (Bord Gáis) was established under the Gas Act 1976 and is a commercial State body. It is wholly owned by the Government of Ireland and is headquartered in Cork. Bord Gáis has two main businesses: gas transportation and energy supply. Its core functions and responsibilities include gas supply to over 540,000 customers, electricity supply to eligible businesses, appliance servicing and building and operating natural gas networks.


Bord na Móna plcMain StreetNewbridge Co. KildareTel: 045 439000 Fax: 045 439001Email: [email protected] Website: www.bnm.ie

Chairperson: Fergus McArdleManaging Director: Gabriel D’Arcy Bord na Móna is an international supplier of products and services based principally on peat. It operates on a decentralised basis through four main subsidiary companies. Its core functions include the supply of peat as a fuel for the generation of electricity, the production of a range of peat-based fuels, coal and oil for residential and industrial heating, the development of pollution abatement products and products for commercial horticulturists and home gardeners, and the provision of environmental consultancy and commercial laboratory services to industry and public authorities.

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI)2-5 Warrington PlaceDublin 2Tel: 01 6441200Fax: 01 6760948Email: [email protected] Website: www.bai.ie

Chairperson: Bob CollinsChief Executive: Michael O’Keefe Established under the Broadcasting Act 2009, its role is to ensure that broadcasting stations serve the needs of the people of Ireland. It comprises a board, and two statutory committees dealing with compliance and contract awards, and incorporates work previously undertaken by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland and the Broadcasting Complaints Commission. Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, ComReg is to be amalgamated with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. At the time of publication, no firm date had been given for this merger.

Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg)Block DEFAbbey CourtIrish Life CentreLower Abbey StreetDublin 1 Tel: 01 8049600 Fax: 01 804 9680E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.comreg.ie

Chairperson: Alex ChisholmCommissioner: Mike ByrneComReg is the statutory body responsible for the regulation of the electronic communications sector (telecommunications, radio communications and broadcasting transmission) and the postal sector. It is the national regulatory authority for these sectors in accordance with EU law which is subsequently transposed into Irish legislation. ComReg’s activities are geared towards operators and business and residential users of communications services.Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, ComReg is to be amalgamated with the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. At the time of publication, no firm date had been given for this merger.

Commission for Energy Regulation (CER)The Exchange Belgard Square NorthTallaghtDublin 24Tel: 01 4000800 Fax: 01 4000850Email: [email protected] Website: www.cer.ie

Chairperson: Dermot Nolan Commissioners: Garrett BlaneyThe Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) is the independent body responsible for regulating and overseeing the liberalisation of Ireland’s energy sector. Its powers are specified in the Electricity Regulation Act, 1999 and the Gas (Interim) (Regulation) Act, 2002. The CER facilitates competition by authorising construction of new generating plants and licensing companies to generate and supply electricity. In the gas sector, the CER grants/refuses consent for the construction of pipelines, licenses suppliers and has regulatory powers in relation to prices charged to certain gas customers.

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Digital Hub Development AgencyDigital ExchangeCrane StreetThe Digital HubDublin 8Tel: 01 4806200 Fax: 01 4806201Email: [email protected] Website: www.thedigitalhub.com

Chairperson: Leonard DonnellyChief Executive: Philip FlynnEstablished in July 2003, the Digital Hub Development Agency is an Irish government agency responsible for managing the Digital Hub Project, which is a governmental initiative that focuses on digital content and technology enterprises. The hub’s core functions include the provision of a Dublin-based campus with infrastructure for Irish and international digital media companies, the development of digital media products for the creative, technological, research, educational and community sectors, the National Digital Research Centre, the testing and showcasing of technological innovations, digital industry networking opportunities and the development of a national digital content strategy. Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, Digital Hub Development Agency is to be amalgamated with the Enterprise Ireland or the IDA. At the time of publication, no firm date or definitive details had been given for this merger.

EirGrid plc160 Shelbourne RoadBallsbridgeDublin 4Tel: 01 6771700 Fax: 01 6615375Email: [email protected] Website: www.eirgrid.com

Chairperson: Bernie GrayChief Executive: Dermot ByrneEirGrid is a state-owned company which was established following the government’s decision to create an independent organisation to carry out the Transmission System Operator (TSO) function, with the general aim of assisting the liberalisation of Ireland’s electricity industry and the development of a competitive market. Since July 2006, EirGrid has been the independent electricity TSO in Ireland and the market operator in the wholesale electricity trading system. Its board is appointed by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. EirGrid’s functions include the planning and development of the system, generation

scheduling and dispatching, ensuring system security and operating the electricity market.

Electricity Supply Board (ESB)27 Lower Fitzwilliam StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6765831 Fax: 01 6760727Email: [email protected]: www.esb.ie

Chairperson: Lochlainn Quinn Chief Executive: Pat O’DohertyThe Electricity Supply Board (ESB) was established in 1927 under the Electricity (Supply) Act. It is a statutory corporation, 95 per cent owned by the Government of Ireland, with the remaining shares held by an employee share option trust. It is made up of four divisions: networks, power generation, supply and ESB international, and has responsibility for generating and transmitting the majority of electricity in the State.

Inland Fisheries IrelandSwords Business CampusSwordsCo. DublinTel: 01 8842 600Fax: 01 8360 060Email: [email protected] Website: www.fisheriesireland.ie

Chairperson: Brendan O’MahonyChief Executive: Dr Ciaran Byrne

Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) was formed on July 1, 2010 following the amalgamation of the Central Fisheries Board and the seven former Regional Fisheries Boards into a single agency. IFI is responsible for the protection, management and conservation of the inland fisheries resource across the country. Ireland has over 70,000 kilometres of rivers and streams and 144,000 hectares of lakes all of which fall under the jurisdiction of IFI. The agency is also responsible for sea angling in Ireland. Apart from Dublin, IFI have offices in Ballina, Ballyshannon, Clonmel, Galway, Limerick, and Macroom.

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Mining Board 3rd FloorHolbrook HouseHolles Street, Dublin 2Tel: 01 6620284Fax: 01 6620340Email: [email protected]

Chairperson: Michael McGrath S.C.Board Members: Eoin O’Buachalla, Michael NearyThe Mining Board is an independent board established under the Minerals Development Act, 1940. Its function is to consider applications for the registration of minerals as excepted minerals under the Minerals Development Act 1979, in addition to determining compensation claims in various cases.

National Oil Reserves Agency (NORA)7 Clanwilliam SquareGrand Canal QuayDublin 2Tel: 01 6769390Fax: 01 6769399Email: [email protected] Website: www.nora.ie

Chairperson: Aidan DonnellyChief Executive: Pat MeehanThe National Oil Reserves Agency (NORA) was established in 1995 as a subsidiary of the Irish National Petroleum Corporation Limited (INPC). It was established as a State agency under the National Oil Reserves Agency Act, 2007, and is responsible for the holding of national strategic oil stocks at a level determined annually by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources. Oil stocks are held directly by NORA itself or on its behalf by third parties in Ireland and/or in EU Member States with whom Ireland has concluded a Bilateral Oil Stockholding Agreement.

Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ)DonnybrookDublin 4Tel: 01 2083111 Fax: 01 2083080Email: [email protected] Website: www.rte.ie

Chairperson of RTÉ Authority: Tom SavageDirector General of RTÉ Executive Board: Noel CurranRaidio Teilifís Éireann is Ireland’s public service broadcaster. It is a statutory corporation that was created under the Broadcasting Authority Act, 1960. It provides a broadcasting service to the Irish public by radio and television. RTÉ Radio consists of four primary stations: RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ 2fm, RTÉ lyric fm and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, and seven digital stations: RTÉ Radio 1 Xtra, RTÉ Choice, RTÉ Pulse, RTÉ Chill, RTÉ Gold, RTÉ 2XM and RTÉ Junior. RTÉ Television consists of two channels, RTÉ One and RTÉ Two. In addition to providing a broadcasting service, RTÉ also produces the RTÉ Guide, RTÉ.ie, the RTÉ player, RTÉ News Now and Aertel, which is a teletext service. RTÉ Performing Groups encompasses two orchestras: the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra; two choirs: the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir and RTÉ Cór na nÓg; and supports a string quartet: the RTÉ Vanbrugh Quartet.

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Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI)Wilton Park HouseWilton PlaceDublin 2GlasnevinDublin 9Tel: 01 8082100 Fax: 01 8082002Email: [email protected] Website: www.seai.ie

Chairman: Brendan HalliganChief Executive: Prof. J Owen LewisFormerly the Irish Energy Centre, Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI) was set up by the Government in 2002 as Ireland’s national energy agency. Its mission is to play a leading role in transforming Ireland into a society based on sustainable energy structures, technologies and practices. This entails the implementation of significant aspects of the Energy White Paper “Delivering a Sustainable Energy Future for Ireland” and the National Climate Change Strategy (2007-2012) as provided for in the National Development Plan (2007-2013). SEI also has responsibility for providing policy advice on sustainable energy to the Government, the implementation of Government-agreed programmes and the stimulation of sustainable energy policies and measures in general.

TG4Head OfficeBaile na hAbhannCo. na GaillimheTel: 091 505050Fax: 091 505021 Email: [email protected] Website: www.tg4.ie

Dublin Office80 Harcourt StreetBaile Átha Cliath 2Tel: 01 4763030 Fax: 01 4763031Email: [email protected] Website: www.tg4.ie

Cathaoirleach (Chair): Peter QuinnPríomhfheidhmeannach (Director General): Pól Ó GallchóirIs é TG4 an tseirbhís náisiúnta teilifíse Gaeilge. Is faoi scáth RTÉ a d’fheidhmigh sé 1996-2007. Tá dualgais agus feidhm TG4 (Teilifís na Gaeilge) leagtha síos i Roinn VI den Acht Craolacháin 2001. Bunaíodh TG4 mar eintiteas reachtúil neamhspleách Aibreán 1 2007. Féachann 800,000 duine ar an gcainéal gach lá. Tá scair fhéachana 3% den mhargadh náisiúta teilifíse aige. Infheistíonn TG4 os cionn €20m sa mbliain i gcláracha nua Gaeilge ón earnáil neamhspleách léiriúcháin in Éirinn. Tá foireann 75 duine, ó gach cearn d’Éirinn, fostaithe ag TG4 ina Cheannáras i mBaile na hAbhann i nGaeltacht Chonamara. Naonúr comhaltaí atá ar an mbord agus is sé Peadar Ó Cuinn, iarUachtarán CLG atá mar Chathaoirleach.

TG4 (Teilifís na Gaeilge) is the national Irish language television service. The channel was originally established and operated under the statutory umbrella of RTÉ from 1996-2007; its functions and duties are set out in Section VI of the Broadcasting Act 2001. It was established as an independent statutory entity on April 1 2007. 800,000 viewers tune into the channel each day, and it has a share of 3 per cent of the national television market. TG4 invests over €20m annually in original Irish programming from the independent production sector in Ireland and employs a core staff of 75 people from all parts of Ireland at its Connemara headquarters. The new entity has a nine member board and is chaired by Peter Quinn, former GAA President.

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The Loughs AgencyHead Office22 Victoria Road, Derry BT47 2ABTel: +44 028 7134 2100 Fax: +44 028 7134 2720Email: [email protected]: www.loughs-agency.orgRegional Office:Dundalk Street,Carlingford,Co. LouthTel: 042 938 3888 Fax: 042 938 3888Email: [email protected]: www.loughs-agency.org

Chair: Tarlach O Crosain Chief Executive: Derick AndersonThe Loughs Agency is a cross-border body, exercising a statutory remit for conservation, protection and development across the Foyle and Carlingford catchments. Objectives for these river systems and sea areas include development of fisheries and aquaculture, conservation and protection of inland fisheries and sustainable development of marine tourism.


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Chapter 5 Department of Education and Skills

The mission of the Department of Education and Skills is to provide high-quality education which will:

• enable individuals to achieve their full potential and participate fully as members of society, and

• contribute to Ireland’s social, cultural and economic development.

The department’s priorities include the promotion of equity and inclusion, quality outcomes and lifelong learning; planning for education that is relevant to personal, social, cultural and economic needs; and enhancement of the capacity of the department for service delivery, policy formulation, research and evaluation.

Introduction

• Provision of a range of supports (e.g. financial,

staffing and curricular) to primary and second

level schools

• Further Education & Training Policy and Finance

• Education strategy, planning and review

• Quality assurance through regulation and

inspection

• Allocation of financial resources

• Provides for the effective organisation of the

State certificate examinations

• Recruitment and payment of education personnel

• Educational infrastructure

• North-South cooperation

• Provision of school transport

• Special needs education

• Student grants

• Adult literacy/community education programmes

• Services for Minister and Ministers of State

• Teacher education

• Social Inclusion

• Language support for recently arrived children

with English language needs

• Employee Assistance Service for Teachers

• Higher Education Policy and Finance


Offices Department of Education and Skills Marlborough St Dublin 1 (Office of the Minister, Ministers of State and Secretary General)

Cornamaddy Athlone Co Westmeath (Primary/Post-Primary/Special Education, Payroll, Pensions, Further Education)

Portlaoise Road Tullamore Co Offaly (Planning and Building, Higher Education, Finance, School Transport, Building Services, Transport.)

Main Telephone Number: 01 8896400 / 01 8734700

Fax Number: 018787932



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Minister for Education and Skills: Ruairí Quinn TD Appointed: March 2011 Political Party: Labour Party Contact details for the

Minister’s office: Tel: 01 8892275 (Department); 01 6183434 (Dáil)01 889 2350 (Constituency Office) Fax: 01 8896767 (Department) Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Private Secretary: Ronnie Ryan Special Advisor: John WalshePress Advisor: Deirdre Grant Personal Assistant: Ian O’MaraPersonal Secretary: Neil Ward

Other current positions: Deputy Quinn has been Vice-President and Treasurer of the Party of European Socialists since 1998. Previous Ministries: Deputy Quinn served as Minister of State at the Department of the Environment (with special responsibility for Urban Affairs and Housing) from 1982 to 1983, Minister for Labour from 1984 to 1987, Minister for the Public Service from 1986 to 1987, Minister for Enterprise and Employment from 1993 to 1994 and Minister for Finance from 1994 to 1997. Previous committee memberships: During the 30th Dáil Deputy Quinn served as Vice-Chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills and sat on the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Previous party positions: Deputy Quinn was deputy leader of the Labour Party from 1990 to 1997 and was Labour Party leader from 1997 to 2002. He was party spokesperson on Enterprise, Trade and Employment from 2002 to 2007. He was appointed Party Spokesperson on Education and Skills in September 2007. Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Quinn was a member of Dublin City Council from 1974 to 1977 and of Seanad Éireann from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1981 to 1982. He was a member of the EU Council of Ministers for Social Affairs from 1983 to 1987, leader of the Civic Alliance and Labour Group on Dublin City Council from 1991 to 1993, and a member of ECOFIN: Council of

Minister for Education and Skills

Finance Ministers in 1996.Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Quinn was educated at University College, Dublin and worked as an architect before entering politics.Electoral history: Deputy Quinn first ran unsuccessfully for the Dáil in 1973 but was elected to the 13th Seanad upon nomination by the Taoiseach until 1977. He was elected to the Dáil as a TD for Dublin South-East in 1977. Having lost his seat in the 1981 general election, he again served as a Senator on the Industry and Commerce Panel until regained his Dáil seat in 1982. He has been returned at every general election since.

Minister of State: Ciarán Cannon TDSpecial Responsibility: Training and Skills Appointed: March 2011Political Party: Fine Gael

Contact Details for the Minister of State’s Office: Tel: 01 8892301/01 8892302 (Department); 01 6183185 (Dáil) 091 880790 (Constituency)Fax: 01 8896495 (Department); 01 8896554 (Constituency)Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Secretary: Anne GriffinPress Officer: Sarah MoroneyPersonal Secretary: Niamh Lawless

Previous party positions: Deputy Cannon was previously a member of the Progressive Democrats and in 1998 he was elected leader of the now defunct party. In March 2009, he became a member of Fine Gael. Electoral History: Deputy Cannon was first elected to the Dáil for the Galway-East constituency in the 2011 general election. He was elected to the Seanad in 2007 upon the nomination of the Taoiseach while he was a member of the Progressive Democrats. Education/Previous occupation: Before entering politics, Deputy Cannon was the Chief Executive Officer of IHCPT, The Irish Pilgrimage Trust, between 2002 and 2006 and was also it's secretary from 2000 to 2002.

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Minister of State: Seán Sherlock TDSpecial Responsibility: Research and Innovation Appointed: March 2011 Political party: Labour Party Contact details for the Minister’s office

Tel: 01 889 6768 (Department); 022 53523; 01 6184048 (Constituency) Fax: 01 889 6788 (Department); 022 57761 (Constituency) Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Private Secretary: Ciara Molloy Press Officer: Sarah Moroney

Previous committee memberships: Deputy Sherlock was a member of the Oireachtas committee on agriculture, fisheries and food and the Oireachtas committee on economic regulatory affairs in the 30th Dáil.Previous party positions: Deputy Sherlock served as Labour party spokesperson on agriculture and food in the 30th Dáil.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Sherlock was co-opted to Mallow Town Council and Cork County Council in September 2003 and elected to both the following year, becoming Mayor of Mallow in 2004.Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Sherlock was educated at College of Commerce, Cork and University College, Galway and earned a BA in Economics and Politics. He is a former Parliamentary Assistant to Labour Party President and MEP Proinsias de Rossa,Electoral history: Seán Sherlock was first elected to the Dáil following the 2007 general election and was subsequently re-elected in 2011.


Fianna Fáil: Brendan Smith TDLeinster House Tel: 01 6183376Constituency: Cavan MonaghanEmail: [email protected]

Sinn Féin: Seán Crowe TDLeinster House Tel:01 6183941Constituency: Dublin South WestEmail: [email protected]


Oireachtas CommitteesJoint Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education

This Committee has a broad remit, shadowing three departments and will play a key role in providing a meaningful input into legislation and policy and informing debate on the creation and retention of jobs; promoting and supporting enterprise and innovation; developing sustainable social policies and ensuring Ireland’s education system benefits all of society and is recognised internationally as a top class system. The Committee conducts inquiries into areas of current interest within its remit.Among the key policy priorities for the Committee are:• Reform of commercial rates and the high level of business costs;• Social Welfare reform;• The Structure and management of Irish schools;• Standards of teaching and research in universities and institutes of technology.

At the end of an inquiry, the Committee will usually produce a report setting out its findings and making recommendations to the Government.

Clerk to the CommitteeTara KellyEmail: [email protected]: 01 6183481

Chairperson Damien English TD (Fine Gael)Tel: 01 6184012Email: [email protected]

Deputy English currently serves the Meath West constituency which he has represented since he first was elected in 2002. During his time in the 30th Dáil he was Fine Gael spokesperson for small business and labour affairs and served on several committees including the joint committee on enterprise, trade and innovation, the joint committee on economic regulatory affairs, the joint committee on finance and the joint committee on European scrutiny. In the 29th Dáil he was secretary of the Fine Gael Parliamentary

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Deputies:

Ray Butler Fine Gael

Áine Collins Fine Gael

Joan Collins United Left

Michael Conaghan Labour

Barry Cowen Fianna Fail

Seán Crowe Sinn Féin

Damien English Fine Gael

Tom Fleming Independent

Brendan Griffin, Fine Gael

John Halligan Independent

Seán Kyne Fine Gael

Anthony Lawlor Fine Gael

John Lyons Labour

Nicky McFadden Fine Gael

Mary Mitchell O’Connor Fine Gael

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin Labour

Aengus Ó Snodaigh Sinn Féin

Willie O’Dea Fianna Fáil

Brendan Ryan Labour

Brendan Smith Fianna Fáil

Peadar Tóibín Sinn Féin

Senators:

Deirdre Clune Fine Gael

John Kelly Labour

Michael Mullins Fine Gael

Marie Louise O’Donnell Independent

Averil Power Fianna Fáil

Feargal Quinn Independent

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Party (2002 to 2007), deputy spokesperson for arts, sport and tourism (2002 to 2004), deputy spokesperson for justice and community affairs, with special responsibility for drugs, alcohol & crime prevention (2004 to 2007) and was a member of the British-Irish Inter Parliamentary Body. Deputy English has attained a Diploma in Management Accounting through the Certified Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) following his studies at Dublin Institute of Technology & Dublin Business School.

The DepartmentSecretary General: Brigid McManus Appointed: January 2005Private Secretary: Niamh DevineContact details for Secretary General’s office: Tel: 01 8892280

Department of Education and Skills

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Previous positions: From 1978 to 1995, Brigid McManus worked in the Department of Finance in a variety of posts dealing with public expenditure issues and various EU financial issues including the preparation of the 1994-1999 NDP for the EU Structural and Cohesion Funds. From 1995-2000 she worked in the Department of Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht where her responsibilities included the funding and legislative framework for the National Cultural Institutions. She was a special policy adviser to the Minister between 1997 and 2000. Ms McManus was also an assistant secretary at the Department of Finance with responsibility for tax policy issues from 2000 to 2005. Education/ Qualifications: Ms McManus received a B.A. in History and Economics from University College, Dublin. She also has a Diploma in Public Administration from École Nationale d’Administration, Paris.


(i) The Inspectorate

• Dublin Department of Education and Skills Inspectorate Secretariat Block 3 Marlborough St Dublin 1 Tel: 01 8896553

• Cork Department of Education and Skills 1A South Mall Cork Tel: 021 4906011

• Galway Department of Education and Skills Floor 3 Ross House Merchant’s Road Galway Tel: 091 568922

• Sligo Department of Education and Skills Kempten Promenade Bridge Street Sligo Tel: 0719143218

• Limerick Department of Education and Skills Rosbrien Road Punch’s Cross Limerick Tel: 061 430000/430004

The Inspectorate is responsible for the evaluation of primary and post-primary schools and centres for education in accordance with Section 13 of the Education Act 1998. It also, provides advice to schools, teachers and boards of management, and contributes to the formulation of education policy.• Chief Inspector: Dr Harold Hislop • Regional subdivision- Deputy Chief Inspector: Gary Ó Donnchadha• Policy support subdivision- Deputy Chief Inspector: Vacant• Assistant Chief Inspectors: Doreen McMorris;

Deirdre Mathews; Emer Egan; Eamonn Murtagh; Don Mahon; Gary Ó Donnchadha; Pat MacSitric. Suzanne Dillon

(ii) National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS)Frederick Court24-27 North Frederick StreetDublin 1Tel: 01 8892700Fax: 01 8892755Email: [email protected]

• Assistant Secretary: Peter Baldwin• Director: Maureen Costello• Assistant Principal: Fergal Nolan

The National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) is a service provided by the Department of Education and Skills. NEPS psychologists work with both primary and post-primary schools and they are concerned with learning, behaviour, and social and emotional development. Each psychologist is assigned to a group of schools.“NEPS mission is to support the personal, social and educational development of all children through the application of psychological theory and practice in education, having particular regard for children with special educational needs.”NEPS psychologists are based in a network of 22 offices throughout the country, the location, addresses and phone numbers of which can be found on the department’s website.


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(iii) Special Education• Assistant Secretary: Dermot Mulligan• Principal Officer: Jim Mulkerrins• Assistant Principals: Aisling Curley; Terry Reynolds

(iv) Residential Institutions Redress Unit (RIRU)

• Assistant Secretary: Peter Baldwin• Principal Officer: Mary McGarry• Assistant Principals: Nuala Hynes; Aongus Ó hAonghusa

(v) Early Years Education Policy• Assistant Secretary: Ruth Carmody• Principal Officer: Catherine Hynes• Assistant Principal: Theresa Ryan

(vi) Information Technology• Assistant Secretary: Michael Keogh • Principal Officer: Ann McDonnell • Assistant Principals: Paul McCarthy; Colm Purcell; Paul Soden; Julie Murphy; Peig Garvey

(vii) Human Resources I (Personnel, Administrative Staff, Decentralisation)

• Assistant Secretary: Michael Keogh• Principal Officer: David Gordon• Assistant Principals: Paraic Joyce; Eileen Guiney; Vacancy

(viii) Human Resources II (Personnel, Non-Admin. Staff)

• Assistant Secretary: Michael Keogh• Principal Officer: David Gordon• Assistant Principal: Arthur Kelly

(ix) External Industrial Relations• Assistant Secretary: Pat Burke• Principal Officer: Philip Crosby• Assistant Principals: Tara Carton; Pat Pykett; Micheál Lenihan

(x) Teacher Education• Assistant Secretary: Alan Wall• Principal Officer: Alan Wall• Assistant Principals: Jill Fannin; Marguerita Boyle; David Walsh

(xi) Qualifications, Curriculum & Assessment Policy

• Assistant Secretary: Alan Wall • Principal Officer: Margaret Kelly; Phil O’Flaherty • Assistant Principals: Anne Murray; Anne O’Mahony

(xii) ICT Policy• Assistant Secretary: Alan Wall• Principal Officer: Eddie Ward• Assistant Principals: Karen Murtagh; Rita Sexton

(xiii) Higher Education Policy & Skills and Research & Finance

• Assistant Secretary: Kevin McCarthy• Principal Officers: Anne Forde; Jerome Kelly• Assistant Principals: Laura Casey; Anne-Marie Grenham; Michael Troy; Gráinne Morrissey

(xiv) Higher Education Equity of Access

• Assistant Secretary: Kevin McCarthy• Principal Officer: Brian Power• Assistant Principals: Eilish Bergin; Jackie Hynes

(xv) National Development Plan• Assistant Secretary: Peter Baldwin• Principal Officer: Brian Duggan• Assistant Principals: Mary Kelleher; Peter Kelly

(xvi) Pensions• Assistant Secretary: Pat Burke• Principal Officer: Ann Killian• Assistant Principal: Shay Lennon; �de Mulcahy


(xvii) Policy & Legal• Director: Ruth Carmody• Principal Officer: Caitriona O’Brien • Assistant Principals: Ursula Dunne; Breda Connaughton

(xviii) Statistics• Director: Ruth Carmody• Senior Statistician: Tom Healy• Statisticians: Gillian Golden; Nicola Tickner

(xix) Corporate Services• Director: Michael Keogh• Principal Officer: Christine Tiernan• Assistant Principals: Siobhán Cullen; Andrew Diggins; Philip Marron; Niall McCabe

(xx) Schools Division• Assistant Secretary: Martin Hanevy• Principal Officer: Hubert Loftus; Matt Ryan; Brian Brogan; Dalton Tattan• Assistant Principals: Alfie Barrett; Josephine O’Connor; Teresa McNeill; Conor McCourt; Peter Raftery; Martin Shiel; Eugene Rafferty

(xxi) Finance• Assistant Secretary: Michael Keogh• Principal Officer: Eamonn Moran• Assistant Principals: Bláithín Dowling; Áine Garvin; Alan O’Neill• Accountant: Valerie Considine

(xxii) Social Inclusion• Assistant Secretary: Ruth Carmody • Principal Officer: John Kelly• Assistant Principals: Catriona Hanevy; Chris Kelly; Donagh Kelly; Kay Prendergast

(xxiii) International & North/South

• Director: Alan Wall• Principal Officer: Seamus McLoughlin• Assistant Principals: Keith Moynes; Micheál Ó Fiannachta; Des O’Loughlin

(xxiv) Further Education• Assistant Secretary: Peter Baldwin• Principal Officer: Seamus Hempenstall• Assistant Principals: Marian Carr; Justina Corcoran

(xxv) Integration Unit• Assistant Secretary: Ruth Carmody• Principal Officer: Breda Naughton

(xxvi) Planning, Building & Public/Private Partnership

• Assistant Secretary: Sean O Foghlu• 3rd Level BU & PBU Finance: - Principal Officer: John Rigney - Assistant Principals: Peter Healey; Micheál Delaney• Forward Planning: - Principal Officer: Tony Dalton - Assistant Principals: Richard Dolan; Micheál Delaney• Construction, Devolved Schemes and Developing Areas Unit: - Principal Officer: Mary Craig - Assistant Principals: Enda Hughes• School Capital Appraisal and Architectural Planning: - Principal Officer: Gerome Kelly- Assistant Principal: Mary Horan; Tom Plunkett• Public/Private Partnership: - Principal Officer: Maria Grogan - Assistant Principals: Eamonn Cusack; Cyril O’Neill• Managers: Jonathan Bliss; Larry McEvoy; Tony Sheppard

(xxvii) School Transport• Assistant Secretary: Pat Burke• Principal Officer: Patricia O Connor• Assistant Principals: Dominic Sullivan; Niamh McElduff

(xxx) Payroll• Assistant Secretary: Pat Burke• Principal Officer: Padraig Maloney• Assistant Principals: Bernie Quinn; Catherine Kelly; Carmel Egan

(xxxi) Internal Audit • Principal Officer: David Salter

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Agencies and Associated Bodies An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta22 Plás Mhic Liam,Baile Átha Cliath 2Tel: 01 6340831 Fax: 01 6341002Email: [email protected] Website: www.cogg.ie

Chairperson: John CarrChief Executive: Muireann Ní MhóráinAn Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta was founded under the provisions of Article 31 of the Education Act of 1998 following a campaign led by Comhdháil Náisiúnta na Gaeilge, Gaelscoileanna & Eagraíocht na Scoileanna Gaeltachta to establish a structure to cater for the educational needs of Gaeltacht schools and of Gaelscoileanna. There are functions also in Article 31 relating to the teaching of Irish in the country’s other schools.

Commission to Inquire into Child AbuseFloor 2, St. Stephen’s Green HouseEarlsfort Terrace Dublin 2Tel: 01 662 4444Email: [email protected]

Chairperson: Mr. Justice RyanHigher Executive Officer: Ms. Deirdre FineganThe Commission was established on 23 May, 2000, pursuant to the “Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Act 2000”. Its functions inlcude: to hear evidence of abuse from persons who allege they suffered abuse in childhood, in institutions, during the period from 1940 or earlier, to the present day; to conduct an inquiry into abuse of children in institutions during that period and, where satisfied that abuse occurred, to determine the causes, nature, circumstances and extent of such abuse; and to prepare and publish reports on the results of the inquiry and on its recommendations in relation to dealing with the effects of such abuse.

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 10 Burlington RoadDublin 4Tel: 01 6140100 Fax: 01 6680561 Email: [email protected] Website: www.dias.ie

Chairperson: Dr Vincent CunnaneRegistrar: Mr Cecil KeaveneyThe Institute was established in 1940 under the Institute for Advanced Studies Act. A publicly-funded independent centre for research in basic disciplines, it has three constituent schools: the School of Celtic Studies, the School of Theoretical Physics and the School of Cosmic Physics. The Institute pursues research in specialised areas and trains advanced students in original research methods.

The Education (Former Residents of Certain Institutions for Children) Finance BoardFloor 3Frederick Court24/27 North Frederick StreetDublin 1Tel: 1890 742742 Fax: 01 8745709Email: [email protected] Website: www.educationfinanceboard.com

Chairperson: Richard Langford Secretary Manager: Eithne DohertyThe Education Finance Board is a statutory body as a result of the indemnity agreement with the State and the religious congregations. It is responsible for administering an education fund for former residents of certain institutions and their families. The board, appointed by the Minister, is independent in the performance of its functions and consists of a chairperson and eight ordinary members, four of whom are former residents of one or more of the institutions.

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Further Education and Training Awards Council (FETAC) Ground FloorEast Point PlazaEast Point Business ParkFairviewDublin 3Tel: 01 8659500 Fax: 01 8650067Email: [email protected] Website: www.fetac.ie

Chairperson: Donal O’Rourke Chief Executive: Dr Padraig Walsh FETAC is responsible for making and promoting quality awards in further education and training, setting national standards, validating the quality of programmes and establishing working partnerships, in addition to making awards which were previously the responsibility of the National Council for Vocational Awards (NCVA), CERT/NTCB, FÁS Teagasc and BIM.Note: Legislation published in July 2011 provides for a new single national agency, Qualifications and Quality Assurance Ireland (QQAI), which will replace FETAC, HETAC, NQAI and IUQB. It is anticipated that QQAI will be established in 2012. FETAC continues its award making, programme validation and monitoring activities as scheduled. However, during 2011/12 further changes to services may arise.

Grangegorman Development Agency c/o St. Brendan’s HospitalFormer Nurses Education CentreGrangegormanDublin 7Tel: 01 8676070 Email: [email protected] Website: www.grangegormandevelopmentagency.ie

Chairperson: John Fitzgerald Chief Executive: Mr Micheal HandThe Grangegorman Development Agency was established in 2006 by the Irish Government to redevelop the former St. Brendan’s Hospital grounds in Dublin city centre as a new campus for the Dublin Institute of Technology and to provide community health facilities on behalf of the Health Services Executive.

Higher Education Authority (HEA) Brooklawn HouseCrampton Ave.Shelbourne RoadDublin 4Tel: 01 2317100LoCall: 1890 200 637Fax: 01 2317172Email: [email protected] Website: www.hea.ie

Chairperson: Mr. John HennessyChief Executive: Tom BolandThe HEA is the statutory body responsible for the funding of universities and designated third-level education institutions. Under the terms of the Higher Education Authority Act 1971 it is responsible for the development of third-level education and for performing an advisory role in relation to all third-level education. Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Science are to be consolidated into one single council under HEA. At the time of publication, no firm date or definitive details had been given for this merger. Higher Education and Training

Awards Council (HETAC) 26-27 Denzille LaneDublin 2Tel: 01 6441500Fax: 01 6314577 Email: [email protected] Website: www.hetac.ie

Chairperson: Professor W.J. (Seamus) SmithChief Executive: Padraig Walsh HETAC is the qualifications-awarding body for third-level educational and training institutions outside the university sector.Note: Legislation published in July 2011 provides for a new single national agency, Qualifications and Quality Assurance Ireland (QQAI), which will replace FETAC, HETAC, NQAI and IUQB. It is anticipated that QQAI will be established in 2012. FETAC continues its award making, programme validation and monitoring activities as scheduled. However, during 2011/12 further changes to services may arise.

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International Education Board of Ireland (IEBI)The PlazaEast Point Business ParkDublin 3IrelandTel: 01 7272359Fax: 01 5292499Email: [email protected] Website: www.educationireland.ie

Chief Executive Officer: John Lynch The IEBI was established by the Government in 1992 to promote and co-ordinate the marketing of Ireland as a provider of international education Professor W.J. (Séamus) Smyth services. It has representation from the third-level sector (both public and private), EFL (English as a Foreign Language) schools, government departments and semi-state agencies.

Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social SciencesFirst FloorBrooklawn HouseCrampton AvenueBallsbridgeDublin 4Tel: 01 6603652 Fax: 01 6603728Email: [email protected] Website: www.irchss.ie

Chairperson: Professor Caroline Fennell Director: Tim Conlon (Acting) The Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences was set up to develop Ireland’s research capacity and skills base – with the support of the National Development Plan the IRCHSS funds research in the humanities, social sciences, business and law with the objective of creating new knowledge and expertise that will ultimately benefit Ireland’s economic, social and cultural development.

Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Science are to be consolidated into one single council under HEA. At the time of publication, no firm date or definitive details had been given for this merger.

Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology The Embark InitiativeIRCSET Brooklawn HouseCrampton AvenueShelbourne RoadDublin 4Tel: 01 2315000 Fax: 01 2315009Email: [email protected] Website: www.ircset.ie

Chairperson: Prof. Jane Grimson Director: Martin Hynes The Embark Initiative is operated by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET). It is funded by the State under the National Development Plan and provides direct financial support for researchers & research students with the aim of knowledge creation for the long-term benefit of society and the economy. Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Science are to be consolidated into one single council under HEA. At the time of publication, no firm date or definitive details had been given for this merger.

Léargas189-193 Parnell StreetDublin 1Tel: 01 8731411 Fax: 01 8731316 Email: [email protected] Website: www.leargas.ie

Chairperson: Eamonn KinchExecutive Director: Jim Mullin Léargas is Ireland’s National Agency for the management of transnational programmes in the areas of youth work, primary and secondary education, vocational education and training, and lifelong learning.

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National Centre for Guidance in EducationFirst Floor42-43 Prussia StreetDublin 7Tel: 01 8690715 Fax: 01 8823817Email: [email protected] Website: www.ncge.ie

Director: Jennifer MckenzieThe centre is responsible for supporting and developing guidance practice in all areas of education and to inform departmental policy in this area.

National Centre for Technology in EducationDublin City UniversityGlasnevinDublin 9Tel: 01 7008200 Fax: 01 7008210Email: [email protected] Website: www.ncte.ie

Director: Jerome MorrisseyThe NCTE manages the implementation of the Government’s ICT in Schools initiative and provides advice to the Department on issues relating to ICT and learning/teaching.

National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) 24 Merrion SquareDublin 2Tel: 01 6617177 Fax: 01 6617180Email: [email protected] Website: www.ncca.ie

Chairperson: Dr. Tom CollinsChief Executive Officer: Dr Anne Looney The NCCA’s role is to advise the Minister on curriculum and assessment for early childhood education and for primary and post-primary schools. The functions formerly performed by Integrate Ireland Language and Training Ltd have, in part, been taken over by the NCCA.

National Council for Special Education1-2 Mill StreetTrimCo MeathTel: 046 9486400 Fax: 046 9486404Email: [email protected]: www.ncse.ie

Chairperson: Sydney BlainChief Executive: Teresa Griffin The NCSE was set up to improve the delivery of education services to persons with special educational needs arising from disabilities, with particular emphasis on children.

National Qualifications Authority of Ireland (NQAI)(The Advisory Council for English Language Schools (ACELS) is now part of NQAI as of January 2010)5th Floor Jervis HouseJervis StreetDublin 1Tel: 01 8871500 Fax: 01 8871595 Email: [email protected] Website: www.nqai.ie

NQAI Chairperson: Paul HaranNQAI Chief Executive Officer: Dr Padraig WalshACELS Head: Jim Ferguson ACELS Project Manager: Sue HackettACELS Tel: 01 8871500 Fax: 01 8871595Email: [email protected] Website: www.acels.ie

The NQAI was set up in February 2001 under the Qualifications (Education and Training) Act 1999 to establish and maintain a qualifications framework for the development, recognition and award of qualifications based on knowledge or skill competence to be acquired by learners. It is also responsible for establishing and promoting the maintenance and improvement of the standards of awards of the further education and training sector (other than in the existing universities) and for promoting and facilitating access, transfer and progression throughout the whole span of education and training. The Advisory Council for English Language Schools (ACELS) was established in 1969 under the auspices of the Irish Department of Education & Science to control standards in EFL schools and organisations through an inspection/recognition scheme.

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The Presidents Award/Gaisce Ratra House, Phoenix ParkNorth Road,Pheonix ParkTel: 01 617 1999 Fax: 01 617 1999Email: [email protected] Website: www.gaisce.ie

Chairperson: Laurence Crowley Chief Executive Officer: Patrick G. CallaghanThe President’s Award is a national challenge award open to individuals between 15 and 25 years of age.

Residential Institutions Redress Board Belfield Office ParkBeech Hill RoadClonskeaghPO box 9104Dublin 4Tel: 01 2680600 LoCall: 1800 200086Fax: 01 2680025Email: [email protected] Website: www.rirb.ie

Chairperson: Hon. Mr. Justice Esmond SmithPrincipal Officer: Michael O’Beirne The Redress Board was set up under the Residential Institutions Redress Act, 2002 to make fair and reasonable awards to those who, as children, were abused while resident in industrial schools, reformatories and other institutions subject to state regulation or inspection.

Royal Irish Academy 19 Dawson StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6762570 Fax: 01 6762346 Email: [email protected]: www.ria.ie

President (Council and Executive Committee): Prof. Luke Drury Executive Secretary: Laura Mahoney The Royal Irish Academy is the academy for the sciences and humanities for Ireland, promoting excellence in scholarship, recognising achievements in learning, directing research programmes and producing books and journals on the sciences, archaeology, history, literature, Celtic studies and international affairs.

Royal Irish Academy of Music36-38 Westland RowDublin 2Tel: 01 6764412 Fax: 01 6622798 Email: [email protected] Website: www.riam.ie

Chairperson: Brian AylwardDirector: Deborah KelleherFounded in 1848, the Academy offers a full range of musical studies, as well as speech and drama, from beginner to diploma and graduate to post-graduate level.

State Examinations CommissionCornamaddyAthloneCo WestmeathTel: 090 6442700 Fax: 090 6442744Email: [email protected] Website: www.examinations.ie

Chairperson: Richard LangfordChief Executive: Aidan FarrellA non-departmental body under the aegis of the Department of Education, the SEC is responsible for the development, assessment, accreditation and certification of the Junior Certificate and the Leaving Certificate.

The Teaching CouncilBlock AMaynooth Business CampusMaynoothCo. KildareTel: 01 6517900 Fax: 01 6517901 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.teachingcouncil.ie

Chairperson: Lily CroninDirector: Áine LawlorThe Teaching Council seeks to promote and develop teaching as a profession at primary and post-primary levels. It provides a forum for presenting the views of the profession on all aspects of the teaching career.

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Chapter 6 Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation


• Industrial policy• Company law• Competition law• Consumer policy • Employment policy

• Industrial Relations • Science Technology and Intellectual Property• Enterprise Policy

IntroductionThe Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation was first established in 1924 as the Department of Industry and Commerce. Since then it has existed in many forms, and its current name and combination of responsibilities date from 2011.

The department is central to the growth and development of the national economy by reason of its responsibility for the State’s industrial, enterprise, and employment policies. It also has responsibility for competition policy, consumer policy and company law. In addition, there are a number of significant agencies, which are charged with the implementation and enforcement of government policy in key areas that report to the Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation.

The department’s current mission statement is to “work for the Government and the people to equitably grow Ireland’s competitiveness and quality employment.”

OfficesDepartment of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation Kildare Street Dublin 2(Office of the Minister, Ministers of State and Secretary General, Corporate Services, Competitiveness and Jobs, Innovation and Investment, EU Affairs and Trade Policy)

Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation Davitt House 65A Adelaide RoadDublin 2(Employment Rights and Industrial Relations)

Department of Enterprise, Jobs and InnovationEarlsfort CentreEarlsfort TerraceDublin 2(Commerce, Consumers, and Competition)

Main Telephone Number: 01 6312121 LoCall: 1890 220 222Fax Numbers: Kildare Street: 01 6312827Adelaide Road: 01 6313267Earlsfort Centre: 01 6312599Email: [email protected] Email protocol: [email protected] Website: www.djei.ie


Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation: Richard Bruton TD Appointed: March 2011Political party: Fine Gael

Contact details for the Minister’s office:Telephone: 01 6312172 (Department); 01 6183103 (Dáil) Fax: 01 6312815 (Department); 01 6184501 (Dáil)Email:[email protected] (Department); [email protected] (Dáil)Private Secretary: John Maher Email: [email protected] Advisor: Ciaran Conlon Email: [email protected] Advisor: Conor Quinn Email: [email protected]

Previous ministries: Deputy Bruton was Minister for Enterprise and Employment from 1994 to 1997 and Minister of State at the Department of Industry and Commerce from September from 1986 to March 1987. Previous committee positions: Deputy Bruton has served on the Dáil committee on public expenditure and is a former member of the joint Oireachtas committees on education and science, women’s rights, enterprise and employment, public enterprise and transport, and commercial state bodies. Most recently, Deputy Bruton sat on the joint Oireachtas committee on finance and the public service until October 2010.Previous party positions: Deputy Bruton was the Fine Gael party spokesperson on energy and communications from 1987 to 1989, energy and natural resources from 1989 to 1990, employment from 1992 to 1993, health from 1990 to 1992, enterprise and employment from 1993 to 1994 and education and science from 1997 to 2002. He was also the Fine Gael spokesperson on policy and press director with special responsibility for decentralisation and development of new cities from June 2000 to February 2001; he then became director of policy from February 2001 to June 2002. Most recently, he was deputy leader of Fine Gael and spokesperson on finance from 2002 to 2010 and from 2010 he was Fine Gael spokesperson on enterprise, jobs and economic planning.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Bruton was a member of Seanad Éireann from August 1981 to February 1982. He was also a member of Meath County Council from 1979 to 1982.

He also was a member of Dublin City Council from 1991 to 1994 and then again from 1999 to 2003. Education/Previous occupation: He attended University College, Dublin and Nuffield College, Oxford, where he obtained an M.Phil in Economics.Electoral history: Richard Bruton was re-elected to the Dáil for the Dublin North-Central Constituency in the February 2011 general election and has held a seat in this constituency since 1982.

Minister of State: John Perry TDSpecial Responsibility: Small businessAppointed: March 2011Political party: Fine GaelContact details for the Minister’s office:Tel: 01 6183765 (Department) 01 6183765 (Dáil)

Fax: 01 6184610Email: [email protected] Private Secretary: Eamon McCormack Press Officer: Sinead FennellEmail: [email protected]

Previous committee positions: Deputy Perry was chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee; vice-chairperson of the joint Oireachtas committee on communications and natural resources; member of the audit committee of the Houses of the Oireachtas commission; chairperson of the joint Oireachtas committee on European scrutiny; and a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on economic regulatory affairs.Previous party positions: Deputy Perry was spokesperson on science, technology, small business and enterprise and the border counties from 1997 to 2000; assistant director of organisation and junior spokesperson (with special responsibility for border issues) from June 2000 to February 2001; spokesperson on the marine from 2004 to 2007; and spokesperson on small business in the 30th Dáil. Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Perry was a member of Sligo County Council from 1999 to 2004, representing the Sligo–Strandhill electoral area.Electoral history: John Perry was first elected to the Dáil in 1997 for the Sligo-North Leitrim constituency and has retained his seat in each election since.

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Minister for Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation

Ministers of State


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Minister of State: Seán Sherlock TDSpecial Responsibility: Research and innovationAppointed: March 2011Political party: Labour PartyContact details for the Minister’s office:

Tel: 01 6184049 (Dáil)Email: [email protected] Secretary: Patrick RochfordPress Officer: Róisín McCannPersonal Secretary: Davina Hickey

Previous committee memberships: Deputy Sherlock was a member of the Oireachtas committee on agriculture, fisheries and food and the joint Oireachtas committee on economic regulatory affairs in the 30th Dáil.Previous party positions: Deputy Sherlock served as spokesperson on agriculture and food in the 30th Dáil.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Sherlock was co-opted to Mallow Town Council and Cork County Council in September 2003 and elected to both the following year. He became Mayor of Mallow in 2004.Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Sherlock was educated at College of Commerce, Cork and University College, Galway and earned a BA in Economics and Politics. He worked as an assistant to the former Labour party president and MEP Proinsias de Rossa. Electoral history: Seán Sherlock was first elected to the Dáil following the 2007 general election and subsequently re-elected in the 2011 election.


Fianna Fáil: Willie O’Dea TDLeinster House Tel: 01 6184259Constituency: Limerick CityEmail: [email protected]

Fianna Fáil: John McGuinness TD (Small Business Regulatory Framework)Leinster House Tel: 01 6183137

Constituency: Carlow KilkennyEmail: [email protected]

Sinn Féin: Peadar Tóibín TD Leinster House Tel: 01 6183518Constituency: Meath WestEmail: [email protected]


Oireachtas CommitteesCommittee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education This Committee has a broad remit, shadowing three departments and will play a key role in providing a meaningful input into legislation and policy and informing debate on the creation and retention of jobs; promoting and supporting enterprise and innovation; developing sustainable social policies and ensuring Ireland’s education system benefits all of society and is recognised internationally as a top class system. The Committee conducts inquiries into areas of current interest within its remit.

Among the key policy priorities for the Committee are:• Reform of commercial rates and the high level of business costs;• Social Welfare reform;• The Structure and management of Irish schools;• Standards of teaching and research in universities and institutes of technology.

At the end of an inquiry, the Committee will usually produce a report setting out its findings and making recommendations to the Government.



Deputy English currently serves the Meath West constituency which he has represented since he first was elected in 2002. During his time in the 30th Dáil he was Fine Gael spokesperson for small business and labour affairs and served on several committees including the joint committee on enterprise, trade and innovation, the joint committee on economic regulatory affairs, the joint committee on finance and the joint committee on European scrutiny. In the 29th Dáil he was secretary of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party (2002 to 2007), deputy spokesperson for arts, sport and tourism (2002 to 2004), deputy spokesperson for justice and community affairs, with special responsibility for drugs, alcohol & crime prevention (2004 to 2007) and was a member of the British-Irish Inter Parliamentary Body. Deputy English has attained a Diploma in Management Accounting through the Certified Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) following his studies at Dublin Institute of Technology & Dublin Business School.

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Deputies:Ray Butler Fine GaelÁine Collins Fine GaelJoan Collins United LeftMichael Conaghan LabourBarry Cowen Fianna FailSeán Crowe Sinn FéinDamien English Fine GaelTom Fleming IndependentBrendan Griffin Fine GaelJohn Halligan IndpendentSeán Kyne Fine GaelAnthony Lawlor Fine GaelJohn Lyons LabourNicky McFadden Fine Gael

Mary Mitchell O’Connor Fine Gael Aodhán Ó Ríordáin LabourAengus Ó Snodaigh Sinn FéinWillie O’Dea Fianna FáilBrendan Ryan LabourBrendan Smith Fianna FáilPeadar Tóibín Sinn Féin

Senators:Deirdre Clune Fine GaelJohn Kelly LabourMichael Mullins Fine GaelMarie Louise O’Donnell Independent Averil Power Fianna FáilFeargal Quinn Independent

Members


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The DepartmentSecretary General: John MurphyContact details for Secretary General's Office: 01 6312170

Appointed: November 2011Previous Positions: Mr Murphy was previously Assistant Secretary for Transport Investment, Public Transport and Finance in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and has previously held roles in the Departments of Labour, Finance, Environment as well as Revenue.Education: Mr Murphy holds a BA in History and Politics from UCD and a M.Sc. (Econ) in Public Policy Studies from TCD/IPA.


(i) Labour Affairs & Corporate Services • Assistant Secretary: Dermot Curran• Industrial Relations / EU employment issues- Principal Officer: Paul Cullen- Assistant Principal: Michael Green; Gary

Dixon Employment Rights Section- Principal Officer: Fiona Flood- Assistant Principals: Frank Doheny; Eamonn

Balmer • Employment Rights Legislation (Projects)- Principal Officer: Thomas Tobin• Management Support Unit- Principal Officer: Anne Coleman Dunne- Assistant Principals: Nina Brennan; Celyna

Coughlan• Personnel & Business Services Unit- Principal Officer: Maureen O’Sullivan- Assistant Principals: Dermot Sheridan;

Siobhan Fitzpatrick; Peter Buckley• Finance Unit- Principal Officer: Paraig Hennessy- Assistant Principals: Nicola Haran; Catherine

Carroll (Accountant Grade 1); Gerard Ryan (Accountant Grade 1)

(ii) Innovation & Investment• Assistant Secretary: Martin Shanagher• Cross-Departmental Science, Technology

& Innovation Policy & Discover Science/Awareness programmes

- Principal Officer: Pat Nolan- Assistant Principal: Pauline Mulligan• Taxation Policy- Accountant Grade 1: Paul Kealy• Industry R&D including Enterprise Ireland,

Tyndall National Institute and STI Financials:- Principal Officer: Helen Nugent- Assistant Principals: Eadaoin Collins; Michael

Davitt • Science Foundation Ireland, PRTLI, EU

& International Research policy, inc. EU Structural Funds

- Principal Officer: Aidan Hodson- Assistant Principals: Pat Kelly; Fergal Cullen- Assistant Principal: John Ruttledge• Intellectual Property Unit- Principal Officer: Eamonn Laird- Assistant Principal: Imelda Hardiman• Patents Office- Controller of Patents: Eamonn Laird- Assistant Principals: Gerard Barrett; Dermot

Doyle; Michael Leydon (Senior Patents Examiner)

• Inward Investment & North South- Principal Officer: Vacant- Assistant Principals: Ronnie Breen, Seamus

Chamberlain

(iii) EU Affairs & Trade Policy• Assistant Secretary: Philip Kelly• EU Affairs & Internal Market- Principal Officer: Tommy Murray- Assistant Principal: Derval Monahan• Chemicals Regulation Policy- Principal Officer: Francis Rochford- Assistant Principal: John Hughes• Health & Safety Policy Liaison- Principal Officer: Francis Rochford- Assistant Principal: Danny Kelly• Trade Policy Unit- Principal Officer: Gerry Monks- Assistant Principal: Anne-Marie Finlay• Licensing Section- Principal Officer: Gerry Monks- Assistant Principal: Siobhan O’Carroll• Bi-lateral Trade Promotion- Principal Officer: Gerry Monks- Assistant Principal: Gerry Wrynn• ICT Unit


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The Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation

Assistant Secretary: Dermot Curran


Breda Power

Assistant Secretary: Philip Kelly

Industrial Relations

/ EU employment

issues

Competition and

Consumer Policy

EU Affairs & Internal

Market

Employment Rights

Section:

Company Law Review

Chemicals Regulation

PolicyCompany Law (EU projects)

Health & Safety Policy

LiasonCompany Law

Projects

Trade Policy Unit

Licensing Section

Assistant Secretary: Martin Shanagher

Secretary General

John Murphy


Clare Dunne

Competiteveness & Climate Change

Enterprise Development

Unit

Micro Enterprise Policy Unit

Operational Programmes Managementt

Unit

Company Law Policy

Unit

Employment Rights

Legislation (Projects

Management Support Unit

Better Business

Regulation

Co-Operative Legislation/

PIAB

Bi-Lateral Trade

Promotion

SME Policy Unit

Cross-departmental STI Policy,

Governess & Awareness

Taxation Policy

Industry R&D including

Enterprise Ireland, Tyndall National

Instiitute & STI Financials

Science Foundation

Ireland, PRTLI, EU & International

Research policy & EU structural

funds

Intellectual Property Unit

Patents Unit

Competiteveness and Jobs

Labour Affairs & Corporate Services

Innovation & Investment Commerce,

Consumer & Competition

EU Affairs & Trade Policy

Personnel & Business

Services Unit

Finance Unit

Inward Investment & North South

Economic Migration Policy &

Employment Permits

ICT unit

Internal Audit


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- Principal Officer: John Newham- Assistant Principals: Patrick Ryan; Pat McCourt;

Richard Barry; Martin Kerrigan• Economic Migration Policy & Employment

Permits- Principal Officer: Francis Rochford- Assistant Principals: Brendan Shanahan; Joan

Kehoe• Internal Audit- Principal Officer: Fiona Kilcullen- Assistant Principals: Fiona O’Dea; Stephen

Boyd (Accountant Grade 1)

(iv) Competitiveness & Jobs• Assistant Secretary: Clare Dunne• Competitiveness & Climate Change- Principal Officer: William Parnell- Assistant Principal: Tom O’Reilly; Grainne

O’Carroll; Orla O’Brien• Enterprise Development Unit- Principal Officer: Vacant- Assistant Principal: Margaret Lawlor- Assistant Principal:Vacant• Micro Enterprise Policy Unit:- Principal Officer: Eamonn McHale- Assistant Principal: Aine de Bairtiseil• Operational Programmes Management Unit- Assistant Principal: Tony Daly• SME Policy Unit- Assistant Principal: Michael Pender; Eileen

O’Carroll

(v) Commerce, Consumer and Competition

• Assistant Secretary: Breda Power• Competition and Consumer Policy- Principal Officer: Kieran Grace- Assistant Principal: Bill Coventry; Julia O’Malley;

Bill Cox; Cathal O’Gorman• Company Law (EU Legislation)- Principal Officer: John P Kelly- Assistant Principal: Pat A. Houlihan; Sabha

Greene; John Moynihan (Acct. Grade 1)• Company Law Projects- Principal Officer: Vincent Madigan- Assistant Principal: Deirdre O’Higgins• Company Law Review- Principal Officer: John P. Kelly- Assistant Principal: Conor Verdon• Company Law Policy Unit- Principal Officer: Helen Curley- Assistant Principal: Claire Gordon• Better Business Regulation Unit- Principal Officer: Helen Curley- Assistant Principal: Don O’Connor• Co-operative Legislation/PIAB- Assistant Principal: Maire Ni Churic- Legal Advisor: Tanya Holly


Agencies and Associated BodiesCompanies Registration OfficeParnell House 14 Parnell Square, Dublin 1Tel: 01 8045200 (LoCall: 1890 220226)Fax: 01 8045222Email: [email protected] Website: www.cro.ie

Registrar of Companies: Helen DixonAssistant Registrars: William Reade; Harry Lester; Gerry Doyle Legal Advisor: Nora RiceThe Companies Registration Office is associated with the commerce, consumers and competition division of the Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation. It is the central repository of public statutory information on Irish companies, and houses the Registrar of Companies, business names and restricted/disqualified persons. The office’s core functions include:• incorporation of companies and registration of business names; • receipt and registration of post incorporation documents;• enforcement of the Companies Acts in relation to the filing obligations of companies; and• making information available to the public. Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, the Office of the Registrar of Friendly Societies will be formally merged with the Companies Registration Office. At the time of publication, no firm date or definitive details had been given for this merger.

Competition AuthorityParnell House14 Parnell Square, Dublin 1Tel: 01 8045400 LoCall: 1890 220 224Fax: 01 8045401Email: [email protected]

Chairperson: Isolde GogginMembers: Ciarán Quigley (Corporate Services Division); Professor Stephen Calkins (Mergers Division); Gerald FitzGerald (Monopolies Division); Patrick Kenny (Cartels Division)Legal Advisors: Noreen Mackey; David McFaddenThe Competition Authority is a legal body that is responsible for enforcing Irish and European

Competition law. It has the power to step in if there is evidence that businesses are involved in anti-competitive practices, such as price-fixing cartels, or that businesses are abusing their dominant position. The Competition Authority can also block mergers between businesses that would substantially reduce competition and harm consumers.

Note: Under plans contained in the Consumer and Competition Bill, which is currently being drafted, the National Consumer Agency and the Competition Authority are to be merged. At the time of publication, the Bill has not been published.

Employment Appeals TribunalDavitt House65a Adelaide RoadDublin 2Tel: 01 6313006 LoCall: 1890 220222Fax: 01 6313266Email: [email protected] Website: www.eatribunal.ie

Chairperson: Kate T. O’MahonyPrincipal Officer: Francis RochfordAssistant Principal: Dominic McBrideThe tribunal is an independent body established under the Redundancy Payment Act, 1967 to deal with and adjudicate on employment disputes under a wide range of legislation. It consists of a chairperson, 21 vice-chairpersons and a panel of 60 members, 30 nominated by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and 30 by employers’ organisations. A secretariat comprising full-time civil servants seconded from the Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovations assists the tribunal in its discharge of administrative duties.Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, industrial relation/employee rights institutions including the Labour Court, Labour Relations Commission, Employment Appeals Tribunal, National Employment Rights Authority and the Equality Tribunal will be rationalized into one single agency. At the time of publication, no firm date or definitive details had been given for this merger.

Enterprise IrelandHead OfficeEast Point Business ParkDublin 3Tel: 01 7272000 Fax: 01 7272020E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.enterprise-ireland.com

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The core mission of Enterprise Ireland is to accelerate the development of world-class Irish companies to achieve strong positions in global markets, resulting in increased national and regional economic prosperity. Resources are focused on companies characterised by high levels of innovation, commitment and ambition. The agency’s main areas of activity include investing in research and innovation, competing through productivity, starting and scaling up, achieving export sales and driving regional enterprise.

European Consumer Centre, Ireland (ECC)MACRO Centre1 Green Street,Dublin 7Tel: 01 8797620 Email: [email protected] Website: www.eccdublin.ie

Director: Anne NevilleLegal Advisor: Juan Bueso Advisors: Caroline Curneen, Anna Heryan, Lynssey Delaney, Susan DowlingDispute Resolution Advisor: Susan ReillyA member of the European Consumer Centre Network, ECC Ireland provides free and confidential information on consumer rights in the EU and assists consumers in the resolution of cross-border disputes.

FÁS (Foras Áiseanna Saothair)Training and Employment Authority27-33 Upper Baggot StreetDublin 4Tel: 01 6070500 Fax: 01 6070600Email: [email protected] Website: www.fas.ie

Chairperson: Michael Dempsey Director General: Paul O’TooleFÁS is the national training and employment authority responsible for promoting a more competitive and inclusive knowledge-based economy by enhancing the skills and capabilities of individuals and

enterprises. It was established in January 1988 under the Labour Services Act 1987, and its functions, as laid down in the Act, include training and re-training, designated apprenticeships, recruitment service and employment schemes, placement and guidance services, assistance to community groups, advice for people returning to Ireland and those seeking employment elsewhere in the EU, consultancy and HR related services on a commercial basis outside the State, the gathering and publication of labour market related information and the provision of information and reports to the Minister.

ForfásWilton Park House Wilton PlaceDublin 2Tel: 01 6073000 Fax: 01 6073030Email: [email protected] Website: www.forfas.ie

Chairperson: Eoin O’Driscoll Chief Executive: Martin D. ShanahanForfás is the national policy advisory board for enterprise, trade, science, technology, and innovation. Established in 1994, it provides the Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation and other stakeholders with analysis and advice on issues related to the above areas, in addition to providing administrative and research support to a number of independent bodies. The State’s legal powers for industrial promotion and technology development are vested in it, and it is also the body through which certain powers are delegated to IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland. Board members are appointed by the Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation and as provided for in the industrial development legislation, and the current board includes the Secretary General of the Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation, representatives of related State agencies and a panel of economic, business and other specialists.Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, scope is to be established to merge Forfás into the Department. At the time of publication, no firm date or definitive details had been given for this merger.

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Health and Safety AuthorityMetropolitan BuildingJames Joyce StreetDublin 1Tel: 01 6147000 (LoCall: 1890 289 389) Fax: 01 6147020Email: [email protected] Website: www.hsa.ie

Chairperson: Michael HorganChief Executive: Martin O’Halloran The Health and Safety Authority (HAS) is the national body in Ireland with responsibility for securing health and safety at work. It is a state-sponsored body, operating under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and reporting to the Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation. The HSA operates from seven offices nationwide: the Dublin headquarters and other offices in Athlone, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Sligo and Waterford. It is responsible for monitoring compliance with legislation at the workplace and has the power to take enforcement action, up to and including prosecutions. It also provides information and advice to employers and employees on all aspects of workplace health and safety, and promotes education, training and research in the field.

IDA IrelandWilton Park HouseWilton PlaceDublin 2Tel: 01 6034000 Fax: 01 6034040Email: [email protected] Website: www.idaireland.com

Chairperson: Liam O’MahonyChief Executive: Barry O’LearyIDA Ireland (Industrial Development Agency) is responsible for securing new investment from overseas in manufacturing and internationally traded services sectors, and for encouraging existing investors to expand and develop their businesses. It also provides information on key business sectors and locations within Ireland, assists in the setting up of businesses, acts as a link between potential investors and local industry, government, service providers and research institutions, and offers advice on property solutions. In addition to its Dublin headquarters, it also has offices in Athlone, Cavan, Cork, Donegal, Galway, Limerick, Louth, Sligo and Waterford.

InterTradeIreland: Trade and Business Development BodyThe Old Gasworks Business ParkKilmorey StreetNewryCo. DownBT34 2DETel: 048 30834100 Fax: 048 30834155Email: [email protected] Website: www.intertradeireland.com

Chairperson: Dr. David Dobbin CBEChief Executive: Liam NellisInterTradeIreland, the trade and business development body, is one of six cross-border bodies established under the Belfast Agreement, 1999. Its mission is “to enhance the global competitiveness of the all-island economy to the mutual benefit of Ireland and Northern Ireland through measures such as the creation of knowledge-intensive all-island trade and business development networks and the implementation of all-island trade and business development programmes”. InterTradeIreland aims to identify and develop all-island business opportunities, in addition to helping individual businesses access knowledge and share information in order to build alliances and become more profitable and competitive.

Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority (IAASA)Willow HouseMillennium ParkNaasCo.KildareTel: 045 983600Fax: 045 983601Email: [email protected] Website: www.iaasa.ie

Chairperson: Karen ErwinChief Executive: Ian DrennanThe Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority (IAASA) was established under Part 2 of the Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Act 2003. Its responsibilities include supervising how the prescribed accountancy bodies regulate and monitor their members and promoting adherence to high professional standards within the auditing and accountancy profession. The IAASA is also responsible for monitoring companies’ compliance with the Companies Acts and Article 4 of the IAS regulation, and has an advisory role to the Minister on auditing and accounting matters.

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Labour CourtTom Johnson HouseHaddington RoadDublin 4Tel: 01 6136666 (LoCall: 1890 220 228) Fax: 01 6136667Email: [email protected] Website: www.labourcourt.ie

Chairperson: Kevin Duffy Administration Manager: Eamon Balmer The Labour Court was established under the Industrial Relations Act, 1946 to provide a free, comprehensive service for the resolution of disputes about industrial relations, equality, organisation of working time, national minimum wage, part-time work and fixed-term work matters. A court of last resort, it operates as an industrial relations tribunal, hearing arguments from both parties in a case and then issuing a recommendation, determination, decision or order, depending of the type of case, setting out its opinion on the dispute and the terms on which it should be settled. It is associated with the Employment Rights and Industrial Relations Division of the Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation.

Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, industrial relation/employee rights institutions including the Labour Court, Labour Relations Commission, Employment Appeals Tribunal, National Employment Rights Authority and the Equality Tribunal will be rationalized into one single agency. At the time of publication, no firm date or definitive details had been given for this merger.

Labour Relations CommissionTom Johnson House Haddington RoadDublin 4Tel: 01 6136700 (LoCall 1890 220 227)Fax: 01 6136701Email: [email protected] Website: www.lrc.ie

Chairperson: Breege O’DonoghueChief Executive: Kieran MulveyThe Labour Relations Commission was established under the Industrial Relations Act, 1990, and is responsible for promoting good industrial relations in Ireland. The commission provides a range of industrial relations advisory and mediation services, the principal services being the conciliation service, which assists employers and unions in the resolution of industrial relations disputes, the advisory service, which works with employers and unions to build and maintain good working relations, and the rights commissioner service, which performs a range of roles under the spectrum of employment legislation and assists in disputes involving individuals or small groups of employees. It is associated with the Employment Rights and Industrial Relations Division of the Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation.Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, industrial relation/employee rights institutions including the Labour Court, Labour Relations Commission, Employment Appeals Tribunal, National Employment Rights Authority and the Equality Tribunal will be rationalized into one single agency. At the time of publication, no firm date or definitive details had been given for this merger.

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National Consumer Agency 4 Harcourt RoadDublin 2Tel: 01 4025500 LoCall: 1890 432 432Fax: 01 4025501Email: [email protected] Website: www.consumerconnect.ie

Chairperson: Stephen CostelloChief Executive: Ann FitzgeraldThe National Consumer Agency (NCA) is a statutory body, established by the Irish Government in May 2007 in response to the publication of a 2005 report by the Consumer Strategy Group entitled ‘Make Consumers Count’. The agency incorporates the powers and functions previously held by the Office of the Director of Consumer Affairs (ODCA). It aims to defend consumer interests and embed a robust consumer culture in Ireland, and is mandated to defend and promote consumer rights through forceful advocacy, targeted research, consumer information, education, awareness programmes and the systematic enforcement of consumer law.Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, tThe National Consumer Agency and the Competition Authority will be merged. According to the Plans plans contained in the Consumer and Competition Bill, which is currently being drafted, the Board of the Consumer Agency will be dismantled. At the time of publication, the Bill has not been published.

National Employment Rights AuthorityGovernment BuildingsO’Brien RoadCarlow Tel: 059 9178800Fax: 059 9178912Email: [email protected] Website: www.employmentrights.ie

Head of NERA: Kieran Mulvey Deputy Directors: Padraig Dooley Assistant Principals: John Kelly; Brendan Hogan; Fran Power; Bernard RooneySolicitor: Edel Muldowney

The National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) was established under the Social Partnership Agreement “Towards 2016” to achieve a national culture of employment rights compliance. NERA provides information to employees and employers through its information unit, monitors employment conditions through its inspection services and can enforce compliance and seek redress. NERA covers many aspects of employment rights including wages, holidays and public holidays - OWT Act 1997, working hours, redundancy, dismissal, and notice. In addition to its headquarters in Carlow, NERA has regional offices in Cork, Dublin, Shannon and Sligo. Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, industrial relation/employee rights institutions including the Labour Court, Labour Relations Commission, Employment Appeals Tribunal, National Employment Rights Authority and the Equality Tribunal will be rationalized into one single agency. At the time of publication, no firm date or definitive details had been given for this merger.

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National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) 1 Swift SquareNorthwoodSantryDublin 9Tel: 01 8073800 Fax: 01 8073838Email: [email protected] Website: www.nsai.ie

Chairperson: Ann Riordan Chief Executive: Maurice BuckleyThe National Standards Authority of Ireland is the State’s standards body and the Irish member of the European and international standards bodies CEN and ISO. Its main responsibility is to further the social and economic interests of the consumer and industry through the development and promotion of Irish, European and international standards for products and services. This is achieved by developing the national position through consensus and representing Irish interests in the development of European and international standards, and through consultative processes and publishing, marketing and promoting the use of standards. It also provides independent certification of products, processes and services and regulatory control in the area of measures (metrology).

Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement16 Parnell SquareDublin 1Tel: 01 8585800 LoCall: 1890 315 015Fax: 01 8585801Email: [email protected]: www.odce.ie

Director of Corporate Enforcement: Paul ApplebyPrincipal Officers: Sean Ward; Kevin Prendergast; Conor O’Mahony Assistant Principals: Peter Durnin; Dick O’Rafferty; Denis Hosford; Philomena FloodConcerns about corporate malpractice led to the enactment by the Oireachtas of the Company Law Enforcement Act, 2001 and the establishment of the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) in November 2001. The office is associated with the Commerce, Consumers and Competition Division of the department, and its mission is to improve the compliance environment for corporate activity in the Irish economy by encouraging adherence to the requirements of the Companies Acts and bringing to account those who disregard the law.

Office of the Registrar of Friendly SocietiesParnell House14 Parnell Square Dublin 1Tel: 01 8045499 LoCall: 1890 220 225Fax: 01 8585801Email: [email protected]

Registrar: Helen DixonAssistant Principals: William Reid, Brian O’HareThe Registrar of Friendly Societies is appointed under the Friendly Societies (Amendment) Act, 1977. The Registrar is responsible for the registration and general regulation and supervision of industrial and provident societies, trade unions, friendly societies and co-operatives. Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, the Office of the Registrar of Friendly Societies will be formally merged with the Companies Registration Office. At the time of publication, no firm date or definitive details had been given for this merger.

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Patents OfficeGovernment BuildingsHebron RoadKilkennyTel: 056 7720111 (LoCall: 1890 220 223)Fax: 056 7720100 Email: [email protected] Website: www.patentsoffice.ie

Patents Information CentreGround FloorThe Earlsfort CentreLower Hatch StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6312603 (LoCall: 1890 220 222)Fax: 01 6312551Email: [email protected]

Controller: Eamonn LairdSenior Examiner: Michael LydonAssistant Principals: Gerard Barrett; Dermot Doyle Examiners: Fergal Brady; Dolores Cassidy; Karen PierceThe Patents Office was established under the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act 1927. It is an independent statutory office under the control of the Controller of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, and is associated with the Science, Technology and Intellectual Property Division of the Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation. Its mission is “to provide an efficient and effective system of industrial property protection that will encourage technological progress and promote enterprise through the implementation by the office of the relevant legislation”.

Personal Injuries Assessment BoardPO Box 8ClonakiltyCo. CorkTel: 1890 829 121Fax: 1890 829 122Email: [email protected] Website: www.injuriesboard.ie

Chairperson: Dorothea DowlingChief Executive: Patricia ByronThe Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) is a statutory body which provides independent assessment of personal injury compensation for victims of workplace, motor and public liability accidents where no legal issues are disputed. It was established under the Personal Injuries Assessment Board Act 2003.

Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Wilton Place HouseWilton PlaceDublin 2Tel: 01 6073200 Fax: 01 6073201Email: [email protected] Website: www.sfi.ie

Chairperson: Prof. Patrick Frottell Director General: John TraversChief Operations Officer: Donal KeaneScience Foundation Ireland (SFI) was established as a sub-board of Forfás in 2000 to administer Ireland’s Technology Foresight Fund. It was established on a statutory basis under the Industrial Development (Science Foundation Ireland) Act, 2003, and provides awards and grants to support scientists and engineers working in biotechnology and information and communications technology developments. Its vision statement is: “Through strategic investments in the people, ideas and partnerships essential to outstanding research in strategic areas, Science Foundation Ireland will help build in Ireland research of globally recognised excellence and nationally significant economic importance”.

Shannon Development (Shannon Free Airport Development Company Ltd)Town Centre Shannon Co. Clare Tel: 061 361555Fax: 061 361903Email: [email protected] Website: www.shannondevelopment.ie

Chairperson: John Brassil Chief Executive: Dr Vincent CunnaneSet up in 1959, Shannon Development is Ireland’s only dedicated regional economic development company. Its brief is to drive regional economic development in the wider Shannon area, known as the Shannon region. This covers an area of some 10,000 square kilometres spanning counties Clare, Limerick, North Tipperary, South Offaly and North Kerry, which collectively have a population of over 400,000 people.Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, the future role of Shannon Development is to be reviewed in the context of the Mid West Taskforce Report.

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Company Ltd)Town Centre ShannonCo. Clare Tel: 061 361555Fax: 061 361903Email: [email protected] Website: www.shannon-dev.ie

Chairperson: John Brassil Chief Executive: Vincent Cunnane.Set up in 1959, Shannon Development is Ireland’s only dedicated regional economic development company. Its brief is to drive regional economic development in the wider Shannon area, known as the Shannon region. This covers an area of some 10,000 square kilometres spanning counties Clare, Limerick, North Tipperary, South Offaly and North Kerry, which collectively have a population of over 400,000 people.

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Managing the S&E Regional Operational Programme 2007-2013 & Ireland-Wales Programme 2007-2013

For Information on the Regional Operational Programme contact:Assembly House, O’Connell Street, WaterfordTel: + 353 51 860700 Fax: + 353 51 879887

Email: [email protected]: www.seregassembly.ie

For Information on the Ireland-Wales Programme contact:Ireland-Wales Programme, Old Port of Waterford Building, 3rd Floor, 2 George’s Street,

Waterford Tel: + 353 51 318100, Fax: + 353 51 318129

Email: [email protected]: www.irelandwales.ie

Investing in your futureEuropean RegionalDevelopment Fund

The Southern & Eastern (S&E) Regional Assembly

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Chapter 7 Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government

From 1977 until 2003, this department was entitled the Department of the Environment and Local Government. Its assumption of responsibility for built and natural heritage, nuclear safety and the meteorological service in June 2002 saw the department change its name to reflect this change. Its remit includes several issues which impact on the ordinary daily lives of Irish citizens – the department is responsible for the quality of the environment, housing and other infrastructure, physical and spatial planning and for local government. In 2011, the department was reconfigured with the addition of the community function, transferred from the former Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. The department also transfered responsibility for heritage to the Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Affairs.

The department’s mission is to pursue sustainable development. In pursuing this mission the mandate is to:• achieve a high quality environment with effective environmental protection; address climate change; • achieve effective conservation of ourachieve effective conservation of our natural heritage and biodiversity; achieve effective conservation of our built heritage; • protect and improve water resourcesprotect and improve water resources and the quality of drinking water; • ensure that our regions andensure that our regions and communities are planned and built to respect sustainable and balanced regional development; • ensure good quality housing in sustainable communities; • monitor, analyse and predict Ireland’s weather and climate; • support and enable democratic and responsive local government.

Introduction


• Building standards• Elections• Environment• Fire and emergency planning• Housing• Local government• Motor tax

• Meteorological Service• National Spatial Strategy• Nuclear safety• Planning/development• Public/private partnership


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Minister for the Environment Community and Local Government

Offices

Custom HouseDublin 1Tel: 01 8882000 (Locall: 1890 202021)(Office of the Minister, Ministers of State and Secretary General, Press and Information Unit, Corporate Services/Environment/Housing/Local Government/Planning Divisions, Building Standards and Environmental Assessment, Spatial Policy, Urban and Village Development, Water Quality)

Met ÉireannGlasnevin HillDublin 9 Tel: 01 8064200

Government OfficesBallinaCo. Mayo LoCall: 1890202021(Voluntary Housing, Housing Grants, Water Services (Rural Water Programme), Accounts, Local Government Superannuation)

Teeling StTubbercurryCo. SligoTel: 071 9186700Fax: 071 9186750

Email: [email protected] Email protocol: [email protected]: www.environ.ie

Minister for the Environment Community and Local Government: Phil Hogan TD Appointed: March 2011

Political Party: Fine GaelContact details for Minister’s office: Tel: 01 8882403 (Department); 01 6183093 (Dáil) Fax: 01 8788640 (Department)Email: [email protected] Secretary: Eddie Kiernan Special Advisor: Claire Langton; Sean McKeownPersonal Assistant: Yvonne Hyland Personal Secretary: Diarmuid Healy

Previous ministries: Deputy Hogan served as Minister of State at the Department of Finance with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works from 1994 to 1995. Previous committee memberships: Deputy Hogan was a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on the environment, heritage and local government and a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on climate change and energy security.Previous party positions: Deputy Hogan served as Fine Gael party spokesperson on the food industry from 1989 to 1991, as spokesperson on consumer affairs from 1999 to 1993, and on regional affairs and European development from 1993 to 1994. From 1995 to 2001, he was chairperson of the Fine Gael parliamentary party. In the 29th Dáil, he became the Fine Gael director of organisation. He went on to serve as spokesperson on enterprise, trade and employment from 2002 to 2007. From 2007, he served as spokesperson on environment heritage and local government and as Fine Gael’s national director of elections. Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Hogan was a member of Kilkenny County Council from 1982 to 2003 and was chairperson of the council from 1985 to 1986 and again from 1989 to 1990. He was a member of the South-Eastern Health Board from 1991 to 1999. Deputy Hogan was elected to the Seanad in 1987 on the Industrial and Commerce panel and held the justice and commerce portfolio until 1989. Education/Previous occupation: He attended University College Cork and qualified as a teacher and worked as an auctioneer.


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Electoral History: Deputy Hogan was first elected to the Dáil in 1989 for the Carlow Kilkenny constituency and has been re-elected in every election since. Following an unsuccessful attempt at entering the Dáil in 1987, he was elected to the Seanad on the Industrial and Commerce panel until 1989.

Minister of State: Fergus O'Dowd TD Special Responsibility: NewEra projectAppointed: March 2011Political party: Fine GaelContact details for Minister’s

office:Telephone: 01 6782024 (Department); 01 6183078 (Dáil); 041 9842275 (Constituency)Fax: 01 6610061; 041 9870282 (Constituency)Email: minister.o’[email protected]/[email protected]

Other current positions: Deputy O’Dowd is a full Irish member of the Parliamentary Delegation to the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body. Previous committee positions: In the 30th Dáil, Deputy O’Dowd sat on the joint Oireachtas committees on economic regulatory affairs; transport; the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement; and the committee on education and skills.Previous party positions: Deputy O’Dowd was spokesperson on environment, heritage and local Government and on community, rural and Gaeltacht affairs in the 29th Dáil. In the 30th Dáil, he was spokesperson on the transport and marine and on education and skills.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy O’Dowd served on Louth County Council from 1979 to 2003, was a member of Drogheda Corporation from 1974 to 2003 and served three terms as Mayor of Drogheda: from 1977 to 1978, 1981 to 1982 and 1994 to1995. He was also a member of the 21st Seanad from 1997 to 2002. Education/Previous occupation: Deputy O’Dowd worked as a teacher before entering politics. Electoral history: Deputy O’Dowd was first elected to the 29th Dáil in 2002 for the Louth constituency and was re-elected in May 2007 and again in February 2011. He was elected as a Senator in 1997 on the Administrative panel.


Fianna Fáil: Niall Collins TDLeinster House Tel: 01 6183577Constituency: LimerickEmail: [email protected]

Fianna Fáil: Michael Kitt TD (Housing, Planning and Gaeltacht Affairs)Leinster House Tel: 01 6183473Constituency: Galway East


Fianna Fáil: Séamus Kirk TD (Horticulture and Rural Affairs)Leinster House Tel: 01 6183362Constituency: Louth


Sinn Féin: Brian Stanley TDLeinster House Tel: 01 6183987Constituency: Laois OffalyEmail: [email protected]

Minister of State


Oireachtas CommitteesJoint Committee on Environment, Transport, Culture and the GaeltachtThis Committee shadows the activities of the Departments of: • Environment, Community and Local Government; • Transport, Tourism and Sport; and• Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

This Committee covers important areas of public policy in the fields of transport, the environment, culture and the Gaeltacht, including: achieving balanced regional development; environmental protection; addressing climate change; managing national and local transport issues; and promoting

the development of Gaeltacht areas.The Committee conducts inquiries into areas of current interest within its remit. At the end of an inquiry, the Committee will usually produce a report setting out its findings and making recommendations to the Government.

Clerk to the Committee Eugene Ó Cruadhlaoich/Sinead QuinnEmail: [email protected], [email protected]: 01 6183575 / 3102

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Niall Collins Fianna Fáil




Timmy Dooley Fianna Fáil





Seán Kenny Labour





Gerald Nash Labour

Patrick O’Donovan Fine Gael




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Denis Landy Labour




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Chairperson: Ciarán Lynch TD (Labour) Tel: 01 6183666Email: [email protected]


The DepartmentSecretary General: Geraldine Tallon Appointed: July 2007 Private Secretary: Mary O’Keeffe Legal Advisor: Eunice FrielContact details for Secretary General’s office:

01 8882399

Previous Positions: Geraldine Tallon joined the department in 1980 and she worked at various levels in the planning, housing and environment divisions before becoming an assistant secretary in 1997 with responsibility for policy development on environmental, climate change and sustainable development issues. She then became an assistant secretary for the local government division with responsibility for local government and franchise matters from June 2004 to June 2007.Education/Qualifications: She obtained a BA from University College, Dublin.


(i) Planning and Housing• Assistant Secretary: Michael Layde• Housing and Planning (Finance and Development)- Principal: Philip Nugent - Assistant Principals: Declan Bourke; Marian O’Driscoll; Patrick O’Sullivan; Francis Walsh

• Social Housing (Supply) - Principal: Eddie Lewis- Assistant Principals: Lisa Clifford; Denis McDonald; Elizabeth Munro; Ruth Murray; Breda O’Connor; Gabriel O’Duffy • Housing Regulation and Statistics- Principal: Cian Ó Lionáin- Assistant Principals: Aidan Brennan; Catherine Higgins; Helen McGrath (Statistician); Sheila Power• Social Inclusion Unit- Principal: Mary Tully- Assistant Principals: Theresa Donohue; Claire Gavin; Deirdre Kearney; Barry Lavin• Operational and Management/ Improvement of Housing Stock- Principal: Jim Ganley- Assistant Principals: Teresa Cawley; Deirdre Mahony; Alice McAndrew• Architectural/Buildings Standards- Principal Advisor: Aidan O’Connor- Senior Advisors: Barry Linehan (QS Services); Sarah Neary (Building Standards);Colum Ó Ruanaidh (Social Housing)- Assistant Principals: Marion Kiernan; Martin Vaughan- Engineering Advisors (Building Standards): Sean Armstrong; Eamon Smyth; John Wickham- Quantity Surveyor: Gerry Turley- Architectural Advisors: Paul Altman; Patrick Dowling; Columba Farrell; Michael Foley- Engineering Inspectors: Ned Doyle; Tom English; Gabriel Moloney; Oliver O’Brien; Patricia Rogers

(ii) Local Government• Assistant Secretary: Des Dowling• Local Government Finance and Motor Tax- Principal: Colm Lavery - Assistant Principals: Deirdre Fanning; Emma Reeves; Liam Smith• Local Government Policy- Principal: Donal Enright- Assistant Principals: Ciaran Conroy; Marie Gleeson; Tom Sheridan; Seán Ó Súilleabháin• Local Government Project Development- Principal: Denis Conlon- Assistant Principal: Michael Murphy• Local Government Personnel and


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Services- Principal: Barry Quinlan- Assistant Principals: Dave Corcoran; Martha Doyle; Neil Maher• Superannuation- Principal: Barry Quinlan- Assistant Principal: Mary Jones

(iii) Water and ICT • Assistant Secretary: Mark Griffin

• ICT- Principal: Paul McDonald- Assistant Principals: Janet Flynn; Tim O’Sullivan; Aidan Sullivan- Technical Officer: David Carroll• GIS Unit- Principal: Paul McDonald- GIS Manager: Rob Ovington• Water Services Policy- Principal: Ivan Grimes- Assistant Principals: David Kelly; Tony Keogh; Deirdre Mason; Nuala McLoughlin• Water Services Investment Programme- Principal: Maria Graham- Assistant Principals: Michael Clohessy; Gerry Flannery; Tim Morris; Ainle Ní Bhriain; Tom Walsh• Water Advisors and Inspectors- Principal Advisor: Gerry Galvin- Senior Advisors: Pat Duggan; Oliver Fogarty; Richard McKeever; Gerry O’Donoghue• Water Quality- Principal: Damian Allen- Assistant Principals: Paul Dunne; James O’Connell; Niamh O’Flaherty• Marine Planning/Foreshore- Principal: George Bourke- Assistant Principals: Emer Connolly; Padraic Dempsey; Bernie Kiely• Planning Inspectorate- Principal Advisor: Vacant- Senior Advisors: Niall Cussen, Aileen Doyle, Gabrielle McKeown- Inspector: Bruce McCormack

(iv) Financial and Central Services• Assistant Secretary: Mary Moylan- Principal: Laurence Kelly - Assistant Principals: Deirdre Dunworth; Brendan Pocock• Accommodation

- Assistant Principal: Colm Keenan • Departmental Finance and Accounts/ PPP and NDP- Principal: Maurice Coughlan- Assistant Principals: John Cawley; Paula O’Reilly; Belinda Treacy• Internal Audit- Assistant Principal: Gus Murray• National Directorate for Fire and Emergency Management- Fire Advisor: Sean Hogan- Senior Assistant Fire Advisor: John Barry- Assistant Fire Advisors: Conor Corbett (Engineer); Aidan Dempsey; Pat Fleming; Keith Leonard- Assistant Principals: Brian Kenny; Brendan Mahon• Franchise- Principal: Ríona Ní Fhlanghaile- Assistant Principals: Enda Falvey; Barry Ryan; Eamonn Waters• Environment Radiation Policy and Departmental Strategy- Principal: Una Ní Dhubhghaill- Assistant Principals: Nina Murrap; Kevin O’Donoghue

(v) Environment• Assistant Secretary: John McCarthy• Environment Policy and AwarenessEnvironment Policy and Awareness- Principal: Fiona Quinn- Assistant Principals:Assistant Principals: Kevin Forde; Roger Harrington; Joan Murphy; Lorraine O’Donoghue• Environment InspectorateEnvironment Inspectorate- Principal Advisor:Principal Advisor: Vacant- Senior Advisors:Senior Advisors: Nuala Bannon; Brendan O’Neill; Michael Young- Inspectors:Inspectors: Darren Byrne; Jean Clarke; John O’Neill • Waste PolicyWaste Policy- Principal:Principal: Ronan Mulhall- Assistant Principals:Assistant Principals: Eoin Corrigan; William Culbert; Pat Fenton• Environment International/SustainableEnvironment International/Sustainable Development- Principal:Principal: Pat Macken- Assistant Principals:Assistant Principals: Kevin Greene; Aidan Kinch; Dominic O’Brien; Mairead Ryan (Comhar SDC)• Environmental Compliance and AirEnvironmental Compliance and Air Quality - Principal:Principal: Dave Walsh


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- Assistant Principals:Assistant Principals: Gary McGuin; David Walker • Permanent Representation BrusselsPermanent Representation Brussels- Principal:Principal: Paul Lemass - Assistant Principal:Assistant Principal: Terry Sheridan

(vi) Local Government Audit Services

- Director of Audit: Noel O’Connell- Principal Auditors: Conor Cummins, Anthony Doheny, Pat Guiney (VFM Co- ordinator), James Moran, Richard Murphy, Hugh Neville

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John McCarthy

Director Liam

Campbell

Finance and Planning

(Finance and Policy)

Marine Policy/Foreshore

Water Quality

Assistant Secretary

Mary Moylan

Departmental Finance & Accounts

Fire Services & Emergency Managment Directorate

Secretary General

Geraldine Tallon

Assistant Secretary

Des Dowling

Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government

Local Government

HR/Local Services

Local Government

Finance

Local Government

Project Devlopment

Local Government Policy/Motor

Tax

Water Services

Investmnet Programme

Water Services

Policy

ICT

Housing and Planning

(Regulation and statistics

Housing Programmes

(Regeneration and Remedial

Works)

Housing Programmes (Supply and

Refrom)

Social Inclusion

Operational and

Management/Improvement of Housing

Stock

Architectural/Building

Standards

Franchise

Environmental Radiation & Department

Stategy

Environment Policy &

Awareness

Waste Policy

Environment International

& Sustainable Development

Climate Change

Environmental Compliance/Air Quality

General Forecasting

Applications Development

Administration and Training

Customer Services

Department

Climatology and

Observations

Instrumental and

Environmental Monitoring

Head Aviation Services

Community and Voluntary Supports and Programmes

Personnel & Accomodation

Assistant Secretary

Rita McNulty

Local and Community Devlopment Programme

Rural Development

(EU and National)

Community/Local

Government Alignment,

N/S, LG Services

Assistant Secretary Kathleen

Stack

CES, Local & Community

Development

Assistant Secretary

Máire Killoran

EU Affairs

Training and Development

Procurement

Inter Departmental Co-Ordination

Director of Audits Noel

O’Connell

Housing and Planning

Local Government

Water and ICT

Environment Met Éireann

Local Government

Audit Services


(vii) Met ÉireannMet Éireann is the national meteorological service. Its mission is to monitor, analyse and predict Ireland’s weather and climate and to provide meteorological and related information.

- Director: Liam Campbell- Assistant Director: Eoin Moran- Head (General Forecasting Division): Gerald Fleming- Deputy Head: Evelyn Cusack- Head (Applications Development): Kieran Commins- Principal Meteorological Officer: Aidan Kelly- Head (Administration and Training Division): Joseph Bourke- Principal Meteorological Officer: Séamus Daltún- Head (Customer Service Division): Vacant- Head (Climatology and Observations Division): Liam Keegan- Senior Climatologist: Séamus Walsh- Meteorologists: Mary Curley, Conor Daly - Principal Meteorological Officer: David Fitzgerald- Head (Instrumentation and Environmental Monitoring Division): Vacant- Principal Meteorological Officer: Tom Bannon

(viii) Community- Assistant Secretary: Rita McNulty• Rural Development (EU and National)Rural Development (EU and National)- Principal: Finola Moylette - Assistant Principal: Noreen Finnegan• Community & Voluntary Supports andCommunity & Voluntary Supports and Programmes - Principal: Don Sexton - Assistant Principals: Pat Boyle, Sean McLaughlin (Dublin)• The Local & Community DevelopmentThe Local & Community Development Programme - Principal: Cloghagh McDonnell - Assistant Principals: David Dalton, Karen Flynn (Dublin)• Community/Local GovernmentCommunity/Local Government Alignment, N/S, LG Services - Principal: Aidan O’Reilly - Assistant Principal: Mary Clarke• Inspection ServicesInspection Services - Senior Inspector: Paul McGoldrick- Agricultural Inspectors: Tim Daly (Galway), Garry O’Donnell (Cavan)

Agencies and Associated BodiesBorder, Midland and Western Regional AssemblyThe SquareBallaghaderreen, RoscommonTel: 094 9862970Fax: 094 9862973Email: [email protected] Website: www.bmwassembly.ie

Director: Gerry FinnChairperson: Cyril BurkeThe BMW Assembly was one of two Regional Assembly established in 1999 by the Irish Government for the distribution of EU Structural Funds. For the 2007-2013 funding period the BMW region no longer qualifies for Objective 1 funding (having a GDP per capita above 75% of the EU average) and qualifies instead as a phasing-in region for Objective 2 funding (Regional Competitiveness and Employment Objective). The assembly comprises 29 members nominated by 14 constituent local authorities.

Bord Pleanála64 Marlborough St. Dublin 1Tel: 01 8588100 (LoCall: 1890 275 175)Fax: 01 8722684Email: [email protected]: www.pleanala.ie

Chairperson: Mary KellyChief Executive: Padraic ThorntonAn Bord Pleanála was established in 1977. It is responsible for the determination of appeals under the Planning and Development Acts, 2000 to 2004, the Building Control Act, 1990, the Local Government (Water Pollution) Acts, 1977 and 1990 and the Air Pollution Act, 1987.

Border Regional AuthorityCorlurgan Business Park,Ballinagh Road, CavanTel: 049 4362600Fax: 049 4326434Email: [email protected] Website: www.border.ie

Director: Matt DonnellyChairperson: Andrew BoylanThe Border Regional Authority was established in 1994 along with the other eight regional authorities.

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The aim of the authority is to provide sustainable, balanced regional growth in the border region. This region includes counties Cavan, Donegal, Leitrim, Louth, Monaghan and Sligo. This comprises an area of 12,156 square km and a population of 470,000.

Building Regulations Advisory Body c/o Building Standards and Environmental Assessment SectionDepartment of the Environment, Heritage and Local GovernmentCustom House, Dublin 1Tel: 01 8882551 Fax: 01 8882693Email: [email protected]

Chairperson: Jay StuartSecretary: Adam EganThe Building Regulations Advisory Body was established in 2002 to advise the Minister on all aspects of the National Building Regulations.Note: According to the public service reform programme, published on November 17 2011, the Building Regulations Advisory Body will be absorbed into the Department. At the time of publication, no firm date was given.

An Chomhairle Leabharlanna (The Library Council)53-54 Upper Mount St., Dublin 2Tel: 01 6761167Fax: 01 6766721Email: [email protected]: www.librarycouncil.ie

Chairperson: Mark DeareyDirector: Norma McDermottEstablished by the Public Libraries Act, 1947, An Chomhairle Leabharlanna provides assistance to local authorities and makes recommendations to the Minister for the Environment and Local Government in relation to the improvement of the public library service.Note: According to the public service reform programme, published on November 17 2011, the Arts Council is to be subsumed into an existing body. At the time of publication, no firm date was given.

Comhar: The Sustainable Development CouncilUnder new arrangements announced by Mr Phil Hogan TD, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the sustainable development role currently performed by Comhar, the Sustainable Development Council, is to be integrated into the National Economic and Social Council (NESC).

The Dormant Accounts BoardP.O. Box 10457, Dublin 4Tel: 01 8882602 (LoCall: 1890 202 021)Email: [email protected] Website: www.dormantaccounts.ie

Chairperson: Michael MorleySecretary: Lynda FarrellEstablished on January 4 2006, the Dormant Accounts Board is responsible for preparing the disbursement plan which provides the framework under which Government decisions are made.

Dublin Docklands Development AuthorityCustom House Quay, Docklands, Dublin 1Tel: 01 8183300Fax: 01 8183399Email: [email protected] Website: www.ddda.ieChairperson: Prof. Niamh BrennanChief Executive: Loretta Lambkin (acting)The Dublin Docklands Development Authority was created by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority Act 1997 to lead a physical, social and economic regeneration project in the east side of Dublin. Their mission is to develop the Dublin Docklands into a world-class city quarter paragon of sustainable inner city regeneration - one in which the whole community enjoys the highest standards of access to education, employment, housing and social amenity and which delivers a major contribution to the social and economic prosperity of Dublin and the whole of Ireland.

Dublin Regional Authority1st Floor Mainscourt, 23 Main Street, Swords, Co DublinTel: 01 8074482Fax: 01 8901355Email: [email protected] Website: www.dra.ie

Chairperson: Paddy BurkeDirector: Patricia PotterThe Dublin Region comprises the administrative areas of Dublin City, South County Dublin, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County and Fingal County. The population of the region was approximately 1,187,000 in 2006, which represents approximately 30 per cent of the State’s population.

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Environmental Protection AgencyPO Box 3000, Johnstown Castle Estate, WexfordTel: 053 9160600 (LoCall 1890 335599)Fax: 053 9160699Email: [email protected]: www.epa.ie

Director General: Laura BurkeThe EPA is an independent public body established under the Environmental Protection Agency Act, 1992. It also derives its mandate from the Waste Management Act, 1996, and the Protection of the Environment Act, 2003. Its functions include: enforcement of environmental law; environmental licensing and planning; strategic environmental assessment; education and research development; monitoring, analyzing and reporting on the environment; regulating greenhouse gas emissions; waste management.Note: According to the public service reform programme, published on November 17 2011, the EPA is to be merged with the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland. At the time of publication, no firm date was given.

Heritage CouncilÁras na hOidhreachta, Church Lane, KilkennyTel: 056 7770777Fax: 056 7770788Email: [email protected] Website: www.heritagecouncil.ie

Chairperson: Conor NewmanChief Executive: Michael StarrettThe Heritage Council was established under the Heritage Act 1995 to develop policies and priorities for the identification, protection and preservation of Ireland’s national heritage.

Housing Finance Agency plc.46 St. Stephens Green, Dublin 2Tel: 01 8725722Fax: 01 8725878Email: [email protected]: www.hfa.ie

Chairperson: John BolgerChief Executive: Dr. Ian d’AltonThe Housing Finance Agency plc. is promoted by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government under the terms of the Housing Finance Agency Act, 1981 and incorporated on February 8 1982. The principal objectives of the company are to advance funds to local authorities (which can be used by them for any purpose authorised by the Housing Acts) and to borrow or raise funds for these purposes.

Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency2nd Floor, Cumberland House, Fenian St., Dublin 2 Tel: 01 656 4100Fax: 01 656 4101E-mail: [email protected]: www.housing.ie

The Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency was set up in May 2010 by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. The aim of the Agency is to work with and support local authorities, voluntary housing organisations, and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, in the delivery of housing, planning and related services. The Agency is taking on some functions previously carried out by the Affordable Homes Partnership and the Centre for Housing Research. The Agency will also be responsible for a range of technical functions, including some of those carried out by the National Building Agency

Irish Water Safety AssociationThe Long Walk, Galway Tel: 091 564400 (LoCall: 1890 420 202)Fax: 091-564700Email: [email protected]: www.iws.ie

Chairperson: Frank NolanChief Executive: John LeechThe Irish Water Safety Association was established in November, 1999 by an Order made under the Local Government Services (Corporate Bodies Act), 1971. The Association was re-established as a corporate body under its new title “Irish Water Safety” [IWS] in July 2006. Its responsibilities include water safety promotion in Ireland and the provision of instruction in water safety, rescue, swimming and recovery drills.

Local Government Computer Services BoardPhoenix House, Conyngham Road, Dublin 8Tel: 01 6457000Fax: 01 6457001Email: [email protected]: www.lgcsb.ie

Chairperson: Hubert KearnsChief Executive Officer: Paul McSweeneyEstablished by the Minister for Local Government in September 1975, the board is responsible for the organisation and provision of a service for the supply of computer facilities to local authorities, and for the co-ordination of compatibility in the usage thereof. It aims to provide and promote education, training, and �6


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research and to advise and assist the Minister and local authorities.Note: According to the public service reform programme, published on November 17 2011, the Local Government Computer Services Board is to be merged with the Local Government Management Service Board. At the time of publication, no firm date was given.

Local Government Management Services BoardLocal Government House35-39 Ushers Quay, Dublin 8 Tel: 01 6438400 Fax: 01 6438401Email: [email protected]: www.lgmsb.ie

Chairperson: Eddie SheehyChief Executive: Paul McSweeneyThe Local Government Management Services Board was established in 1997 to provide management services and human resource and industrial relations support and advice to local authorities in Ireland.Note: According to the public service reform programme, published on November 17 2011, the Local Government Management Service Board is to be merged with the Local Government Computer Services Board. At the time of publication, no firm date was given.

Mid East Regional AuthorityCounty Buildings, Wicklow Town, WicklowTel: 0404 66058Fax: 0404 61670Email: [email protected] Website: www.mera.ieDirector: John ByrneCathaoirleach: Micheál NolanThe Mid Eastern Regional Authority comprises counties Meath, Kildare and Wicklow, an area of approximately 6,063 square km. 412,650 people live within this area. Alongside preparing the regional planning guidelines and the economic and social strategies, it coordinates with the authorities in the Dublin Metropolitan Area to ensure the consistent infrastructure development.

Midland Regional AuthorityBridge Centre, Bridge Street, Tullamore, OffalyTel: 057 9352996 Fax: 057 9352998Email: [email protected] Website: www.midlands.ie

Director: Martin Daly

Cathaoirleach: Micheál CarrigyThe Midland Regional Authority comprises the counties Laois, Longford, Offaly and Westmeath. It coordinates the provision of public services between the various local authorities within its area.

Mid West Regional AuthorityFriar Court, Abbey Street, Nenagh, TipperaryTel: 067 33197Fax: 067 34401Email: [email protected] Website: www.mwra.ie

Director: Liam ConneallyCathaoirleach: Edmond Gleeson (Designated Manager)The Mid West Regional Authority coordinates the provision of public services within the administrative areas of Clare County Council, Limerick County Council, Limerick City Council and North Tipperary County Council. Within its remit are contained approximately 10 per cent of the national area and population of the country.

National Building Agency Ltd‘Hatherton’, Richmond Avenue SouthMilltown, Dublin 6Tel: 01 4979654Fax: 01 4972540Email: [email protected] Website: www.nba.ie

Chairperson: Richard Howlin Chief Executive: Gordon Richards The National Building Agency was established by the Government as a semi-State body in 1960. It provides services to both public and private sector clients and undertakes specific tasks supporting Government policies in urban renewal, housing, and other construction-related activities, in addition to undertaking projects on an entirely commercial basis. The National Building Agency is in the process of being wound down and some of its services will be provided by the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency.

National Traveller Accommodation Consultative CommitteeCustom House, Dublin 1Tel: 01 8882121 (LoCall: 1890 202 021)Fax: 01 8882619Email: [email protected]

Chairperson: Seamus Ó CinnéideThe NTACC was established in 1999 under the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998. Its function is to advise the Minister on any general matters concerning the accommodation of Travellers.

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PobalHolbrook House, Holles Street, Dublin 2Tel: 01 5117000Fax: 01 5117981Email: [email protected] Website: www.pobal.ie

Chairperson: Seamus BolandChief Executive: Denis LeamyPobal is a not-for-profit company with charitable status that manages programmes on behalf of the Irish Government and the EU, its aim being the promotion of social inclusion, reconciliation and equality.

Private Residential Tenancies Board2nd Floor, O’Connell Bridge HouseD’Olier St., Dublin 2Tel: 01 6350600 Fax: 01 6350601Email: [email protected] Website: www.prtb.ie

Chairperson: Orla CoyneDirector: Ann-Marie CaulfieldThe PRTB was established in September 2004 to resolve landlord and tenant disputes, to operate a national tenancy registration system and to provide information and policy advice on the private rented sector. The PRTB dispute resolution service replaces the courts in the majority of disputes between landlords and tenants. Note: On 1 October 2009, the secretarial and administrative functions of the Rent Tribunal transferred from the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government to the Private Residential Tenancies Board.

Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland3 Clonskeagh Square, 119 Clonskeagh Rd, Dublin 14Tel: 01 2697766 Fax: 01 2697437Email: [email protected]: www.rpii.ie

Chairperson: Prof Willie Reville (elect)Chief Executive: Dr. Ann McGarryThe Radiological Protection Institute was established under the Radiological Protection Act, 1991. It has regulatory, monitoring and advisory responsibilities in matters pertaining to ionising radiation and is particularly concerned with health hazards associated

with the latter in addition to radioactive contamination in the environment. Note: According to the public service reform programme, published on November 17 2011, the EPA is to be merged with the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland. At the time of publication, no firm date was given.

Southern and Eastern Regional AssemblyAssembly House, O’Connell Street, WaterfordTel: 051 860700Fax: 051 879887Email: [email protected] Website: www.seregassembly.ieDirector: Stephen BlairCathaoirleach: Thomas Breathnach The Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly is comprised of 41 councillors nominated by the 5 regional authorities. The members from the regional authorities are the nominees of their own local authorities i.e. county or city councils. It is the larger of the two designated regions comprising 47% of the State’s landmass. The region extends from the south west of the country (Kerry) up to Co Meath and it includes the capital, Dublin.

South-East Regional Authority1 Gladstone Street, Clonmel, TipperaryTel: 052 6126200Email: [email protected] Website: www.sera.ie

Director: Thomas ByrneCathaoirleach: Willie QuinnThe South-East Regional Authority covers five counties and six local authority areas: Carlow, Kilkenny, South Tipperary, Waterford City, Waterford County and Wexford. The regional authority has been to the forefront of identifying, articulating and addressing the deficiencies and development needs of the South-East region.

South-West Regional AuthorityInnishmore, Ballincollig, CorkTel: 021 4876877Fax: 021 4876872Email: [email protected] Website: www.swra.ie

Director: John FordeCathaoirleach: Noel HarringtonThe South-West Regional Authority is comprised of members nominated by the Cork and Kerry County Councils and Cork City Council.

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West Regional AuthorityWoodquay Court, Woodquay, GalwayTel: 091 563842Fax: 091 561328Email: [email protected] Website: www.wra.ie

Director: Jim McGovernChairperson: Tom CostelloThe West Regional Authority comprises 27 elected members from the constituent local authorities: County Council, Mayo County Council, Galway City Council and Roscommon County Council.

Western Development CommissionDillion House, Ballaghaderreen, Co. RoscommonTel: 094 9861441Fax: 094 9861443Email: [email protected] Website: www.wdc.ie

Chairperson: Helen Rochford BrennanChief Executive: Ian Brannigan (acting)The Western Development Commission (WDC) is a statutory body responsible for fostering and promoting economic and social development in the Western region (counties Donegal, Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo, Roscommon, Galway and Clare) by ensuring that government policy is directed at improving the social and economic situation in the region, developing projects in tourism, industry, marine, renewable energy, technology and organic agri-food and operating the €32 million Western Investment Fund (WIF) to provide loans and equity to business and local communities in the West.

INTERREG – EU TERRITORIAL CO-OPERATIONAtlantic Area programme (applies to all Ireland)Tel: 049 986 2970Fax: 049 986 2973Email: [email protected]: www.interreg-atlantique.orgIllc programme (for Southern and Eastern Regions of Ireland)Tel: 051 860700 Fax: 051 879887Email: [email protected] Director: Ivan Grimes

Illc programme (for Border, Midland and Western Region)Tel: 094 986 2970Fax: 094 986 2973Email: [email protected] Director: David Kelly

Ireland-Northern Ireland-Scotland programme (applies to the Border Region)Tel: 047 77003Fax: 047 71258Email: [email protected] Authority Director: Adrian McNamee

Ireland-Wales programme (applies to Dublin, Mid-East and South-East Regions)Tel: 051 309116Fax: 051 879887Email: [email protected]: www.seregassembly.ieDirector: Simon Bailey

North West Europe programme (applies to all Ireland)Tel: 051 860711Fax: 051 879887Email: [email protected]: www.nweurope.orgProgramme Liaison Officer: Ronan Gingles

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Chapter 8 Department of Finance

IntroductionThe Department of Finance is responsible for the administration of Ireland’s public finances, particularly the collection and expenditure of the country’s national revenues from whatever source arising. It plays a central role in implementing Government policy and in advising and supporting the Government on the economic and financial management of the State. It also plays a key role in advising the implementing Government policy on the banking and financial services sector. The mission of the department is to promote a growing economy which will deliver a high level of sustainable employment, social progress and living standards.

The department was reconfigured following the General Election 2011 when responsibility for public expenditure and the public service were transferred to a newly created Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Core areas of responsibility• Banking and finance• Budget and economic policy• Corporate services

Offices Government Buildings,Upper Merrion Street,Dublin 2.(Office of the Minister, Secretary General, Press office,)

Main Telephone Number: 01 6767571 (LoCall: 1890 661 010)

Fax Number: 01 6789936



Website: www.finance.gov.ie


Minister for Finance: Michael Noonan TDAppointed: March 2011Political party: Fine GaelContact details for Minister’s office:Telephone: 01 6045626 (Department); 01 6183125 (Dáil)

Fax: 01 6761951 (Department) Email: [email protected]@oireachtas.ieSpecial Advisor: Mary Kenny

Previous ministries: Deputy Noonan served as Minister for Justice from 1982 to 1986 and held two different ministries between 1986 and 1987: Minister for Industry and Commerce and Minister of Energy. He was also Minister for Health from 1994 to 1997.Previous committee positions: Deputy Noonan served as chairperson of the public accounts committee from October 2004 to September 2007 and was vice-chairperson of the joint Oireachtas committee on the constitutional amendment on children during the 30th Dáil. He was a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on foreign affairs during the 30th Dáil until July 2010; he then became a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on finance and the public service in June 2010 until the February 2011 election.Previous party positions: He was spokesperson on education in 1981 and later spokesperson on transport, energy and communications from 1993 to 1994. He was also spokesperson on finance from 1987 until 1993 and from 1997 to 2001. He then became leader of Fine Gael and the opposition from February 2001 until May 2002, and also the spokesperson on Northern Ireland. He was appointed spokesperson on finance in July 2010.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Noonan was a member of Limerick County Council from 1974 to 1981 and from 1991 to 1994. He was also a member of the Mid-Western Health Board from 1991 to 1994.Education/Previous occupation: He attended St. Patrick’s Teacher Training College, Dublin and University College, Dublin.Electoral history: Deputy Noonan has been elected as a TD for the Limerick East constituency in every election since 1981. Following a review of constituencies in 2009, the Limerick East constituency was reconfigured to Limerick City and Deputy Noonan won the 2011 election for that constituency.

Minister of State: Brian Hayes TD Special responsibility Public service reform and OPW Appointed: March 2011Political party: Fine GaelContact details for Minister’s

office: Tel: 01 6045644 (Department); 046 942 6408 (OPW); 01 6183567 (Dáil)Fax: 01 6623928; (Department); 046 9438450 (OPW)Email: [email protected]/[email protected]

Previous party positions: Deputy Hayes was secretary to the Fine Gael group at the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation. He was spokesperson on housing, house prices and urban renewal from 1997 to 2000; Northern Ireland from 2000 to 2001; social and community affairs from 2001 to 2002; education and science from 2007 to 2010; and was deputy party spokesperson on finance with special responsibility for public expenditure in the 30th Dáil.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Hayes was a member of Seanad Éireann between 1995 and 1997 during which time he was the spokesperson on the environment. He was again elected to the Seanad in 2002 where he was party leader and spokesperson on defence and Northern Ireland.Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Hayes attended St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth and the University of Dublin, Trinity College. He worked as secondary school teacher before entering politics. Electoral history: Deputy Hayes was first elected to the Dáil for the Dublin South West constituency in 1997 having unsuccessfully contested the 1994 by-election for Dublin South-Central. He was elected as a member of Seanad Éireann in 1995 as a Taoiseach’s nominee. While he failed to gain a seat in the 2002 general election, he was again elected to the Seanad in that year on the cultural and educational panel. He contested the 2007 Dáil general election successfully and was re-elected in the 2011 general election.

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Sinn Féin: Pearse Doherty TDLeinster House Tel: 01 6183573Constituency: Donegal South WestEmail: [email protected]

Fianna Fáil: Michael McGrath TDLeinster House Tel: 01 6183801Constituency: Email: [email protected]

Oireachtas CommitteesJoint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and ReformThis Committee – and the select Committees of Dáil and Seanad Eireann of which it is made – has the power to consider: •Legislation proposed by the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform during the committee stage•Spending by these Departments •Public affairs administered by the Department •Matters of policy for which each Minister is officially responsible •Policy issues arising from Value for Money and Policy Reviews conducted or commissioned by the Department •Statutory instruments and EU legislation

Deputies:

Richard Boyd-Barret United Left

Thomas P. Broughan Independent

Michael Creed Fine Gael

Jim Daly Fine Gael

Pearse Doherty Sinn Féin

Stephen Donnelly Independent

Sean Fleming Fianna Fáil

Joe Higgins United Left

Heather Humphreys Fine Gael


Peter Mathews Fine Gael

Mary Lou McDonald Sinn Féin

Michael McGrath Fianna Fail

Olivia Mitchell Fine Gael


Jonathan O’Brien Sinn Féin

Kieran O’Donnell Fine Gael

Arthur Spring Labour

Billy Timmins Fine Gael

Liam Twomey Fine Gael

Alex White Independent

Senators:

Sean D Barrett Independent

Thomas Byrne Fianna Fáil

Michael D’Arcy Fine Gael

Aideen Hayden Labour

Tom Sheahan Fine Gael

Katherine Zappone Independent

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Clerk to the CommitteeRonan LenihanEmail: [email protected]: 01 618 3169

Chairperson Alex White TD (Labour Party)Tel: 01 6183972Email: [email protected]

Deputy White is the TD for Dublin South and was elected to Seanad Éireann for the first time in 2007. He was Seanad Group Leader and spokesperson on children, foreign affairs, Northern Ireland, enterprise, trade and employment and equality and immigration. In the 30th Dáil he sat on the committee on members’ interests of Seanad Éireann, the committee of selection of Seanad Éireann, the Seanad Éireann committee on procedure and privileges, the joint committee on the Constitution and the joint committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children. He was a member of South Dublin County Council from 2004 to 2007 (Deputy Mayor 2006 to 2007) and sat on transportation and sports and recreation strategic policy committees. He was Vice-President of the Public Sector region of SIPTU for four years and is currently a member of the ICTU and the Irish Society for Labour Law. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin and King’s Inns, Dublin, Senator White is a barrister by profession and was formerly a producer in RTE.

The Department

Secretary General: Kevin Cardiff Appointed: January 2010Private Secretary: Helen McGrathContact details for Secretary General’s office: Tel: 01 6045584

Previous positions: Kevin Cardiff joined the Department of the Public Service in 1984 and then the Department of Finance in 1987. He worked on monetary and exchange rate policy in the 1990s and then on pensions policy and organisational issues, such as freedom of information and standards in public office. Most recently, he was the head of the Taxation and Financial Services Division within the

department and he has worked closely with the Minister of Finance in formulating the Government’s response to the financial crisis.Education/Qualifications: Mr Cardiff is a graduate of the University of Washington and University College Dublin.


(i) Financial Services and Taxation DivisionThis division deals with policy and legislation on the regulation of the financial services sector and the stability of the financial system, both prudential and consumer aspects, and international co-operation in related areas; the development of EU policy and legislation for the financial services sector, including the transposition of EU directives; international financial services; and relations with the Central Bank and the Financial Services Authority of Ireland. • Second Secretary General: Anne Nolan• Assistant secretaries: Aidan Carrigan, Derick Moran• NAMA: - Principal Officer: Pat Leahy• Financial services consumer issues: - Principal Officer: Joan Daly • Reform of financial regulatory structures:- Principal Officer: Ronan Hession • Capital, corporation, savings and pensions taxation: - Principal Officer: Des O’Leary• International taxation and the IFSC: - Principal Officer: Gary Tobin• Income Tax Policy - Principal Officer: Pat Ring • Indirect taxes: - Principal Officer: Gerry Kenny• EU financial services policy and legislation:- Principal Officer: Pat Casey - Assistant principals: Mary Carrick; Brian Finn; Bríd Kemple; Kieran McNamee; Kevin Nolan; Cathal Sheridan; Graham Swarbrigg; Patrick Brennan; Brian Fee; Frank Maughan; John Moore; Angela Black ; Liam Smith; Donal Murtagh; John Day; Finian Judge; Valerie Robinson; Brendan O’Connor; Ambrose Murray; Seamus Milne; Ray Kavanagh; Kevin Kirwan;Clare McNamara


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(ii) Budget & Economic Division This division deals with overall budgetary policy; economic policy and forecasting; taxation policy; co-ordination of EU policy; servicing ECOFIN, Eurogroup and their committees; the EU Budget and future EU financing; drawdown of EU Structural and Cohesion Funds; the establishment of the Strategic Framework for the 2007-2013 funding round; North/South co-operation; servicing EU and OECD committees on budgetary and economic co-operation; Ireland’s membership of international financial institutions (IMF, World Bank, EIB and other multilateral development banks); superannuation policy in the public service and co-ordination of pension matters within the department; debt management policy and related statistics; financial management and government accounting policy; co-ordination and implementation of the Management Information Framework; and accounting, payroll, banking and financial services for various departments and offices.• Second Secretary General: Jim O’Brien - Assistant Secretaries: Michael J.McGrath• Economic analysis:- Principal Officer: John McCarthy • Fiscal policy and tax forecasting: - Principal Officer: John Palmer • EU Advisory Unit: - Principal Officer: Nicholas O’Brien • IFI’s: - Principal Officer: Niamh Campbell• External Programme Compliance Unit: - Principal Officer: Fergal O’Brolchain- EU and Internal Unit Principal Officer; Tony Gallagher- Assistant principals: Joe Kirwan; Marie Mackle; Pat McColgan; Caren Mulcahy; Ailish O’Connell; Paul Shannon; Loretta O’Sullivan; Alan Mahon; Eamann Phelan; Patrick Quill; Marianne Nolan; Ronan Hickey; Gerald Angley • Finance Unit and Corporate Services: • Director: Paul Ryan • Accounts and PMGs: • Principal Officer: Jimmy McMeel • Finance Unit: - Principal Officer: Vacant• Human Resources- Principal Officer: Niall O’Ceallaigh- Assistant principals: Mary Moran; Siobhan Errity; Mary Bergin; Dermot Clynes, Paul Fleming, Marie Roone

(iii) Banking Division- Second Secretary General; John Moran- Assistant Secretaries/ Specialists: Nial Ryan; Michael Torpey; - Banking Stability- Principal Officers; Scott Rankin, Deirdre McGrant, Fred Cooper- Business Credit, BOI, Recapitalisation- Principal Officer: John Hogan- Assistant Principals: Brian Fee, Brendan Fox, John Fitzpatrick, Alan Zambra, Karen Cullen

Office of Public WorksOffice of Public WorksHead Office,Jonathan Swift Street,Trim,Co. Meath.Tel: 046 9426000 (LoCall: 1890 213 414)Fax: 046 9481793Email: [email protected]: www.opw.ie

Minister of State at the Department of Finance: Brian HayesMinister’s Office,Office of Public Works,Trim, Co. Meath.Tel: 046 9426408Fax: 046 9438450 Email: [email protected]

Chairman of the Commissioners of Public Works: Clare McGrathCommissioners: John McMahon; John SydenhamDirector of Architectural Services - State Architect and Principle Architect, OPW: Pat CooneyDirector of the National Public Procurement Service: Vincent CampbellDirector of Engineering Services: John A. SmythDirector of Corporate Services: Eilís O’Connell

The main focal points of OPW activity are flood risk management, procurement services, heritage services and property services, inclusive of architectural, engineering, project management, property maintenance and property management services. It also delivers conference and event management


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at certain prestigious national centres, and art management services.

The structure of the OPW is as follows:

(i) Project Management Services• Principal officers: Brian Allen; Liam Basquille• Assistant principals: Mary Cannon; Gerard

Gleeson; Gerard Kennedy; Frank Shalvey• Quantity Surveying Services - Head of Section: Aidan Quinn - Quantity Surveyors: Thomas Dooley; Finbar

Murphy (Grade 1); Ronan Clerkin

(ii) Property Management Services• Principal officers: Michael Fennelly; Niamh

O’Regan.• Assistant principals: Paul Harrington; Ronan

McKeever; Cathleen Morrison; Paul O’Brien; Marian O’Dwyer

• Valuation Services - Managing Valuer: Martin Connolly - Valuers: Allen Morgan (Grade I); Eamon Coyle;

John Dowds; Mary Nugent (Grade II)

(iii) Property Maintenance Services• Head of Maintenance: Angela Rolfe• Assistant principal: Eileen Leahy• Senior Architects: Michael Cadden; Brian

Hamilton; Páraic Mac Lochlainn; Kevin McLoone; Dermot Reid; Peter Rogers; Brendan Cormican

• Architects: Anna Hanley; Catherine Fitzgerald; Jane Fitzgerald

• Health and safety unit including asbestos Mangement Unit):

• Assistant principal: Kenneth Moore• Building Maintenance Services - Acting Director: Denis Carr- Area managers: Brendan Shortt• Furniture branch:- Procurement Manager: Robert Guihen

(iv) National Historic Properties and National Monuments• Assistant principals: Mary Heffernan; Eugene

Keane; George Moir• National Botanic Gardens:- Acting Director: Matthew Jebb• Historic Parks: - Chief Parks Superintendent: John McCullen- Parks superintendents: Cormac Foley; Margaret

Gormley

(v) Architectural Services• Assistant principal architects: Liam Egan;

Michael Haugh; Ciaran O’Connor; Angela Rolfe; Klaus Unger; Finbar Wall

• Senior architects -Patrick Boyle; Barbara Broni-Kenny; Desmond Byrne; John Cahill; Michael Carroll; Edel Collins; Patrick Gannon; Gerard Harvey; Ian Kelly; Caroline Leaden; Frederick McElwee; Ciaran McGahon; Mary McKenna; Elizabeth Morgan; Gerard O’Sullivan; Niall Parsons; Kate Quinn; Terri Sweeney, Roeland Van Elsen; David Wall; Deirdre Wolahan

• Architects: Gerard Bourke; Andrew Davis; Gretta Doyle; Maeve Dowling; Andrea Fox; Zee Gamiet-Parker; Aoife Hurley; Gosia Kudbya; Stefan Mathews; Joseph Monaghan; Charles Moore; Eithne Moran; Seán Moylan; Aisling Ní Bhriain; Saskia O’Connor; Lennart Sobiecki; Hilary Vandenberghe; Sarah Woods

(vi) Engineering Services

• Flood Risk Management• Assistant chief engineers: Mark Adamson;

Thomas Bolger; Michael Collins; John Curtin• Principal officer: Paul Molloy• Assistant principals: Michael Caden; Eileen

Hughes; Martin O’Gorman• Engineers (Grade I): Seamus Bambury

(Mechanical);Jim Casey; Sean Conway; Patrick Donovan; Richard Dooley; Vincent Hussey; Timothy Joyce; John Martin; John G. Murphy; Cian Ó Dónaill

• Engineers (Grade II): Paul Costello; Noel Fitzpatrick; Shane Flaherty; Gerry Gallagher; Mark Hayes; Shane Hayes; Jamie Keogh; Rosmarie Lawlor; Peter Lowe; Miriam Mulligan; Cyril McCarthy; Erza McManamon; Joseph McNamara; Clíona Ní Dhónaill; Oliver Nicholson; Mark Noonan; Gavin Poole; John Kelly (Mechanical)

• Mechanical and Electrical Services - Assistant Chief Engineer: James O’Sullivan- Engineers Grade 1: David Campbell; Conor

Clarke; Thomas Glynn; Declan Holmes; Keith Milsom; Frank Reilly

• Central Engineering Workshop:- Engineer (Grade I): Michael Marshall- Engineers Grade II: James Hayde; Aiden

McGovern; Johanna O’Sullivan• Civil & Structural Engineering- Assistant Chief Engineer: John Gallagher- Engineers Grade 1: Colm Ryder; Kieran Walsh;

Ian Wolfe - Engineers Grade II: Alexander Fennell; Alan

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Kevin Cardiff

The Department of Finance

Financial Services Division

NAMA

Second Secretary General:

Ann Nolan

Capital corporation, savings, and

pensions taxation

Financial services

consumer issues

Reform of financial

regulatory structures

International taxation and

the IFSC

IncomeTax Policy

EU financial services

policy and legislation

Budget and Economic Division

Economic analysis


Jim O’Brien

Fiscal policy and tax

forecasting

EU advisory unit

Banking Division

IFI’s

External Programme Compliance

Unit

EU and internal Unit

Finance Unit & Corporate

Services

Accounts and PMGs

Finance Unit

Assistant Secretaries:

Derrick Moran; Aidan Carrigan


John Moran Assistant Secretary

Michael J. McGrath

Indirect Taxes

Human Resources

Banking Stability

Business Credit, BOI,

Recapitalisation


(vii) National Public Procurement Service• Director: Vincent Campbell• Deputy Director: Martin Bourke• Assistant principals: Pat Granahan; Yvonne

Jackson; Mary O’Halloran; Seamus O’Neill. • Chief Technical Officer: Jim Ryan• Assistant chief technical officers: Aidan

Murphy• Technical Adviser: Denis Macken• E-Tenders:- Assistant Principal: Thomas O’Brien• Publications (Mail Order; Election Services; &

Iris Oifigúil):- Assistant Principal: Tom Monaghan• Publications (Sales Office):- Sales Manager: Mary McLoughlin

(viii) Corporate Services• Art Management- Deputy art adviser: Jacquie Moore• Equality Unit:- Assistant principal: Edel Hennessey• Financial Services - Accountant and Director of Financial Services:

Mick Long - Assistant principal: Bernie O’Brien• FOI and Legal Services:- FOI Officer: Adrienne O’Driscoll• Internal Audit:- Assistant Principal: Gerard Bourke• Management Accounting Services:- Professional accountants: Colm Higgins; Donal

Wickham (Grade 1); Séamus O’Flaherty (Grade 2).

• Management Information Framework (MIF) Unit

- Assistant Principal: Suzanne Reeves• Personnel and Development Services - Assistant principals: Declan Forde; Edel

Hennessey; David McAuliffe; Margaret Taheny-Moore

- Training Officer: John Fitzgerald - Public Relations Officer: Neil Ryan• Policy Unit:- Assistant Principal: Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh • Organisation and IT Services - Principal Officer: Liam Stewart- Assistant Principle: Kevin Colman

(ix) Heritage Services• National Monuments - Principal Officer: Leslie Lennox- Assistant Principal: Fionnuala Parnell

- Senior architects: Ana Dolan; Paul McMahon; Aighleann O’Shaughnessy; Grellan Rourke

- Architects: Michèle O’Dea; Flora O’Mahony- District Works Managers: Terry Murphy; Eamonn

Rafter; Thomas Speers• Visitors Services: - Principal Officer: Leslie Lennox

Office of the Revenue CommissionersDublin Castle,Dublin 2.Tel: 01 6475000 Fax: 01 6475307Website: www.revenue.ie

Chairperson: Josephine FeehilyCommissioners: Michael O’Grady; Liam Irwin.Established by Government Order in 1923, the Office of the Revenue Commissioners is responsible for the collection and administration of virtually all taxes and duties and the enforcement of import and export controls. Its current mission statement is to serve the community by fairly and efficiently collecting taxes and duties and implementing customs controls.The office is overseen by a Board of Commissioners, which comprises of a chairperson and two commissioners.

There are 15 divisions within the Office of the Revenue Commissioners:

(i) Corporate Services DivisionTel: 01 6475000

This division is responsible for human resource management strategies; including manpower planning; PMDS; and employee assistance services as well as internal and external communications and financial management.

• Assistant Secretary: Paul Dempsey• Manpower planning and management - Principal Officer: Tony Boland• Staff relations and Communications - Principal Officer: Sean Cosgrove • HR Services and Support - Principal Officer: Evelyn Ryan• Financial management - Principal Officer: Paddy O’Shaughnessy

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• Information management: - Principal Officer: Finbarr O’Leary• Internal audit and value for money - Principal Officer: Finbarr O’Leary

(ii) Planning Division Tel: 01 6616444

This division is responsible for developing operational policy and supporting the operational areas in identifying and disseminating best practice. • Assistant Secretary: Niall Cody• Divisional office - Principal Officer: Liam Gallagher• Customer service policy - Principal Officer: Kevin Mulkerrins• Excise Working Group Principal Officer: Niall Butler• Business taxes – systems/forms - Principal Officer: Eugene Lucey• PAYE; Planning and support services - Principal Officer: Declan Rigney• Risk and information management - Principal Officer: Liam Gallagher• Compliance policy - Principal Officer: Seamas O’Cathasaigh• Sectoral compliance - Principal Officer: Margaret Whelan• Research and analytics - Principal Officer: Liam Gallagher• Planning and evaluation - Principal Officer: Florance Carey• Forecasting and statistics - Principal Officer: Paddy Molloy

(iii) Information & Communications Technology and Logistics Division

This division is responsible for information technology tools and services, telephony and logistics.Assistant Secretary: Paul Dempsey• Manpower planning and management - Principal Officer: Tony Boland• Staff relations and Communications - Principal Officer: Sean Cosgrove • HR Services and Support - Principal Officer: Evelyn Ryan• Financial management - Principal Officer: Paddy O’Shaughnessy• Information management:

- Principal Officer: Finbarr O’Leary• Internal audit and value for money - Principal Officer: Finbarr O’Leary

(iv) Investigations and Prosecutions DivisionTel: 01 8277500

This division is responsible for managing and co-ordinating all of Revenue’s prosecution activity, particularly for serious cases of fraud and evasion.

• Assistant Secretary: Breda Ruddle• Divisional Office/ Investigation Support &

Liaison- Principal Officer: Denis O’Connell• Customs Criminal Investigation & Bridgend

Prosecutions Branch - Principal officer: Tom Talbot• Central Intelligence & Drugs Enforcement

Branch - Principal Officer: Michael Colgan• Criminal Investigation Branch Principal Officer: Michael Beagan• Civil Investigations/ Offshore Assets Branch- Principal Officer: Paul Walsh• Special projects and policy development

branch - Principal Officer: Denis M. Holligan

(v) Revenue Solicitor’s DivisionTel: 01 6475000

This division is responsible for provision of comprehensive legal support services, including the conduct of litigation and appeals and the prosecution of criminal offences. • Revenue Solicitor: Marie-Claire Maney• Deputy Revenue Solicitor: Declan Sherlock• Principal Solicitors higher scale: Etain Croadell;

Mairéad Duffy; Mary Kiely.• Principal Solicitor: Evelyn P. Moore

(vi) Customs DivisionTel: 067 63400

This division is responsible for policy, legislation and international functions for customs, including FEOGA audit. It also includes the Accountant General’s office.• Assistant Secretary: William Funnell• AEP/E-Customs Branch

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- Principal Officer: Paul Kennedy• Customs Procedures Branch - Principal Officer: John O’Leary• Customs legislation consolidation branch - Principal Officer: Sean Ó Séaghdha• TOR, International, CAP & Support Branch- Principal Officer: Owen Ryan • Accountant General - Principal Officer/Deputy Accountant General: John Clohessy

(vii) Income and Capital Taxes DivisionTel: 01 6475000

This division is responsible for policy; legislation and interpretation functions for income tax; capital acquisitions tax; capital gains tax and stamp duty. Associated with the division is the RLS (Revenue Legislation Services) divisional office which co-ordinates inputs and manages housekeeping matters for the divisions of income and capital taxes, corporate business and international and indirect taxes.

• Assistant Secretary: Eugene Creighton• Personal Income Tax 1 - Principal Officer: Seán Leake• Personal Income Tax 2 - Principal Officer: Denis Barry• Business Income Tax 1 - Principal Officer: Brian McCabe • Business Income Tax 2- Principal Officer: Frank Gallagher • Capital acquisitions tax and capital gains tax - Principal Officer: Joe McGovern • Stamp duty and revenue powers- Principal Officer: Joe Lynch

(viii) Corporate Business and International DivisionTel: 01 6475000

This division is responsible for policy; legislation and interpretation functions for taxes applicable to corporate business and international matters. Associated with the division is the RLS (Revenue Legislation Services) divisional office which co-ordinates inputs and manages housekeeping matters for the divisions of income and capital taxes, corporate business and international and indirect taxes.Assistant Secretary: Eamonn O’Dea• Corporation Tax 1

- Principal Officer: John Fanning • Corporation Tax 2 - Principal Officer: Tadhg O’Connell • International branch 1 - Principal Officer: Ann O’Driscoll• International branch 2 - Principal Officer: Helen O’Grady• Incentives and financial services 1 - Principal Officer: Jim Byrne• Financial services 2 & RLS Divisional Office- Principal Officer: Michael Brennan

(ix) Indirect Taxes DivisionTel: 01 6475000

This division is responsible for policy, legislation, interpretation and international functions for all indirect taxes. Associated with the division is the RLS (Revenue Legislation Services) divisional office which co-ordinates inputs and manages housekeeping matters for the divisions of income and capital taxes, corporate business and international and indirect taxes.• Assistant Secretary: Gerard Moran• VAT Interpretation- Principal Officer: John Farrell• VAT policy and legislation- Principal Officer: Enda Kelly• VRT- Principal Officer: Kieran Coyle • Excise - Principal Officer: Niall Butler

(x) Collector General’s DivisionTel: 061 310310

This division is responsible for collection and lodgment of the major taxes. It also operates pursuit mechanisms for those who fail to comply.

• Assistant Secretary/Collector General: Gerard Harrahill

• Performance and evaluation planning unit - Assistant Principal: Gerry Cunningham (reports

directly to the Collector General)• Customer; Technical and information

services- Principal Officer: Denis Harrington;• VAT repayments; HR; Charities and

international claims - Principal Officer: Brian Boland• Debt and P35 management - Principal Officer: Eddie Horgan

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• Debt & Insolvency management - Principal Officer: Tom Murphy • Debt, Risk management and training- Principal Officer: Declan O’Dalaigh• Returns accounting and payment services- Principal Officer: Pat O’Shea• Debt, IT Planning; TRS - Principal Officer: Leonard Burke

(xi) Large Cases DivisionTel: 01 6470710

This division is responsible for customer service; compliance and audit functions relating to the largest businesses and wealthiest individuals in the State.Assistant Secretary: Frank Mullen• Financial services (banking) business unit - Principal Officer: Deirdre Behan• Financial services (insurance) business unit - Principal Officer: Brian Boyle• Financial services (pensions) business unit- Principal Officer: Laurence Murtagh• Construction; Property; Mining - Principal Officer: Paul Monks• Information; Communications and technology

business unit- Principal Officer: Jeanette Doonan• Pharmaceutical and general manufacturing

business unit - Principal Officer: John McNamara• Drink; Tobacco and multiple business unit- Principal Officer: Brendan Crawford• Food industry business unit - Principal Officer: Margaret Lysaght • High wealth individuals business unit - Principal Officer: Danielle Cunniffe• Crest & E-Audit Strategy & Support - Principal Officer: Allen Finnegan• Customer services unit - Principal Officer: Gerry Kirk• Divisional office - Principal Officer: Bill Fadden• Financial Services (Banking 2)- Principal Officer: Joan French• Property- Principal Officer: Ruth Fennessy• Transport & Energy- Principal Officer: James Griffin• Customs Administration & Audit- Principal Officer: Tom Hempenstall

(xii) Border Midlands West RegionTel: 091 547700

This division is responsible for counties: Cavan, Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Mayo, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, and Westmeath. • Assistant Secretary: Joe Howley• Regional Office - Principal Officer: Pádraig Geary; • Special compliance district - Principal Officer: Pádraig Geary; • Cavan/Monaghan district - Principal Officer: Seamus Smith • Donegal district - Principal Officer:John Curran;• Galway county district - Principal Officer: Cormac Gilhooly;• Galway/Roscommon district - Principal Officer: Michael Walsh; • Louth district - Principal Officer: Garvan O’Keeffe • Mayo district - Principal Officer: Aodhán Mac Suibhne • Sligo district - Principal Officer: Vacancy• Westmeath/Offaly district - Principal Officer: Ciaran Toohey

(xiii) Dublin RegionTel: 01 6330890

This division is responsible for Dublin city and county. • Assistant Secretary: Philip Brennan• Dublin City Centre district - Principal Officer: Dermot Donegan• Dublin North City district - Principal Officer: Lynda Hendley• Dublin South City/Dun Laoghaire/ Rathdown

Customer Service district - Principal Officer: Kevin McGarry• Dublin Fingal district - Principal Officer: Kathleen Redmond• Dublin South City/ Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown

Compliance district - Principal Officer: Charlie Phelan• South County district - Principal Officer: Maura Conneely• Dublin Port district - Principal Officer: Rory O’Connor• Dublin district 1 – 2nd Tier/High Risk - Principal Officer: Tom James

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• Dublin district 2 – 2nd Tier/High Risk - Principal Officer: Orla Sheridan• Dublin district 3 – 2nd Tier/High Risk - Principal Officer: Maurice Priestly • Dublin Airport district - Principal Officer: Tony Fitzpatrick• Dublin Investigation district - Principal Officer: Kieran O’Grady; • Stamping district - Principal Officer: Emma Clutterbuck• Dublin Regional Office - Principal Officer: Gerry Dwyer

(xiv) East and South East RegionTel: 051 862700

This division is responsible for counties: Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Meath, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow. • Assistant Secretary: Gerard Howard• Kildare district and Capital Acquisitions Tax - Principal Officer: Eamon Healy• Kilkenny district - Principal Officer: Gerry Madden• Meath district - Principal Officer: Paddy Faughnan• Tipperary district - Principal Officer: Thomas Keating• Waterford district - Principal Officer: Sinead McSherry• Wexford district, Special Compliance District

and Central Vehicle Office (CVO):- Principal Officer: Maria Meyler• Wicklow district - Principal Officer: Vivienne Dempsey• Large Enterprise Branch- Principal Officer: Tom Herlihy

(xv) South West RegionTel: 021 6027000

This division is responsible for counties: Clare, Cork, Kerry and Limerick. • Assistant Secretary: Anthony Buckley• Regional Office - Principal Officer: Eoin O’Domhnaill• Large Enterprise Branch - Principal Officer: Michael Gladney• Revenue Investigations Branch - Principal Officer: Eoin O’Domhnaill• Special Compliance Branch - Principal Officer: Seamus Lynch• Clare - Principal Officer: Michael Gladney

• Limerick - Principal Officer: Pat Molan• Cork North West - Principal Officer: Angela McDonald • Cork South West - Principal Officer: Vacancy• Cork East - Principal Officer: Gerry Maher• Kerry - Principal Officer: Anne Looney• Training Branch- Principal Officer: Eilish Keegan

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Agencies and Associated BodiesCentral Bank of IrelandPO Box 559Dame StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 2246000Fax: 01 6716561Email: [email protected] Website: www.centralbank.ie

Governor: Patrick HonohanHead of Financial Regulation: Matthew ElderfieldDirector: Tony GrimesThe Central Bank was established in 1943. It was restructured and renamed the Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (CBFSAI) in 2003. In 2010, the Central Bank Act restructured the CBFSAI and established a fully integrated regulatory institution: the Central Bank of Ireland. Aside from regulation, the Central Bank has responsibilities, within the framework of the European Monetary Union, for monetary policy decisions, economic analysis and maintaining financial stability generally. It is responsible for the regulation of all financial services firms in Ireland. The incumbent Governor Patrick Honohan is a former Professor of International Financial Economic and Development at University of Dublin, Trinity College.

Financial Services Ombudsman3rd FloorLincoln HouseLincoln PlaceDublin 2Tel: 01 6620899 (LoCall: 1890 882 090)Fax: 01 6620890Email: [email protected] Website: www.financialombudsman.ie

Financial Services Ombudsman: William PrasifkaChairperson: Dermott JewellThe Financial Services Ombudsman is a statutory officer who deals independently with complaints from consumers about their individual dealings with all financial services providers that have not been resolved by the providers. The Ombudsman has the power to mediate, adjudicate, resolve and make awards. It is a free service to the complainant; with broader issues of consumer protection being the responsibility of the Financial Regulator.

National Asset Management AgencyTreasury BuildingGrand Canal StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 665000Fax: 01 6650001Email: [email protected] Website: www.nama.ie

Managing Director: Brendan McDonagh Deputy Director: Seán Ó FaoláinThe National Asset Management Agency was established as a statutory agency in November 2009. It is charged with managing the assets formerly on the balance sheet of guaranteed commercial institutions in the State.

National Development Finance AgencyTreasury BuildingGrand Canal StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6640800Fax: 01 6640890Email: [email protected] Website: www.ndfa.ie

Chairperson: John Corrigan Chief Executive: Brian MurphyThe National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) was established on January 1 2003. One of its principal functions is to advise State authorities on the optimal financing of priority public investment projects by applying commercial standards in evaluating financial risks and costs. The NDFA’s overriding objective is to maximise value for money for the Exchequer. In July 2005, the role and functions of the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) were expanded to include a specialised procurement delivery function.

National Pension Reserve Fund CommissionTreasury BuildingGrand Canal Street Dublin 2Tel: 01 6640800Fax: 01 6766483Email: [email protected] Website: www.nprf.ie

Commission Secretary: Elaine Hudson

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The National Pension Reserve Fund Commission was established to determine and implement the strategy of the National Pension Reserve Fund (NPRF) in accordance with statutory investment policy. The NPRF was established in April 2001 to meet the costs of Ireland’s social welfare and public service pensions from 2025 onwards when these costs are projected to increase dramatically due to the ageing of the population. In February 2009, the Minister of Finance announced that the NPRF would finance a €7 billion bank recapitalization programme. The Commission performs its function through the National Treasury Management Agency, which is the ultimate manager of the fund.

National Treasury Management AgencyTreasury BuildingGrand Canal StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6640800Fax: 01 6640890Email: [email protected] Website: www.ntma.ie

Chief Executive: John CorriganChairman: David Byrne The NTMA was set up in 1990 by the passage of the National Treasury Management Agency Act. It was established to borrow money for the Exchequer and to manage the national debt on behalf of the Minister for Finance. The agency is under the ‘superintendence’ of the Minister of Finance. Prior to the establishment of the agency the national debt was managed by the Department of Finance with short term borrowing being the responsibility of the Central Bank. The agency’s establishment was a response to the growth of the national debt in the 1980s and the difficulty in servicing that debt. In 2009, the NTMA raised just over €33 billion.

The State LaboratoryBackweston Laboratory CampusYoung’s CrossCelbridgeCo. KildareTel: 01 5057000Fax: 01 5057070Email: [email protected] Website: www.statelab.ie

State Chemist: Dermot HayesThe State Laboratory was established in 1924 from an amalgamation of the laboratory of the Revenue Commissioners with the chemistry laboratory of the Department of Agriculture. It provides an analytical

and advisory service to Government departments and offices thereby enabling them to implement and formulate the technical aspects of national and EU legislation.

Valuation OfficeIrish Life CentreAbbey Street LowerDublin 1 Tel: 01 8171000 Fax: 01 8171180Email: [email protected] Website: www.valoff.ie

Chief Executive and Commissioner of Valuation: Aidan Murray Managing valuers: James Gormley (Rating Appeals); William M. Walsh (Special Projects; Information and Research); Seamus Connolly (Revaluation); Patrick Cooney (Revaluation and Revision); Declan Lavelle (Revaluation); James McAndrew (Revaluation).The Valuation Office is the State property valuation agency. Its core function is to provide accurate and up-to-date valuations of commercial and industrial properties to ratepayers and rating authorities as laid down by statute. The office also provides valuation consultancy services to other Government departments, the Revenue Commissioners and local authorities.Note: According to the programme of public service reform, the Valuation Office & Ordance Survey Ireland are to be merged into the Property Registration Authority.

Valuation TribunalOrmond House Ormond Quay Upper Dublin 7Tel: 01 8728177Fax: 01 8728060Email: [email protected]: www.valuation-trib.ie

Chairperson: John L. O’Donnell Deputy Chairpersons: Fred Devlin; John Kerr; Maurice Ahern; Niall O’HanlonThe Valuation Tribunal is an independent statutory body that hears and decides • appeals against decisions of the Commissioner of Valuation on the valuation and revaluation of commercial properties for rating purposes under the Valuation Act 2001; and• appeals by owners of derelict sites against the determination by local authorities of the market values of those sites under the Derelict Sites Act 1990.

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• Public Expenditure• Personnel and Remuneration • Corporate Services

IntroductionThe Department of Public Expenditure and Reform was created following the General Election in 2011 and comprises some of the functions that formerly lay with the Department of Finance.

The Department has responsibility, within overall budgetary parameters determined by the Department for Finance, for the management of gross voted expenditure, the annual estimates process, general sanctioning powers in relation to expenditure and policy matters relating to the appraisal, review and evaluation of expenditure. In addition, the Department has responsibility for public service management and reform, including industrial relations and public service modernisation, and for delivering the Government’s programme of political reform to achieve permanent changes in governance in Ireland.

OfficesGovernment BuildingsUpper Merrion StreetDublin 2(Office of the Minister, Minister of State, Secretary General, Press Office, National Development Plan/Community Support Framework Information Office, Public Private Partnership Unit)

Lansdowne HouseLansdowne RoadDublin 4(Centre for Management and Organisation Development)

2-4 Merrion RowDublin 2(Corporate Services Division)

7-9 Merrion RowDublin 2(National Development Plan/Community Support Framework, Decentralisation CPU, Civil Service Equality Unit, FOI Central Policy Unit)

Unit 2Central Business ParkClonminchTullamoreCo. Offaly(Civil Service Training Development Centre, Senior Management Development, Offices of the Accountant and Paymaster General [Banking and Clearance])

Frederick BuildingsSouth Frederick StreetDublin 2(Office of the Chief Medical Officer/Civil Service Occupational Health Department)

Main Telephone Number: 01 6767571 LoCall 1890 661 010Fax Number: 01 6789936E-Mail: [email protected] Email Protocol: [email protected]: www.per.gov.ie


Minister for Public Expenditure and reform: Brendan Howlin TDAppointed: March 2011Political Party: Labour Party

Contact details for Minister’s office: Tel: 01 6318102 (Department) 01 6183538 (Dáil)Fax: 01 6318021Email: [email protected] Secretary: Garrett O’Rorke Email: [email protected] Advisor: Ann Byrne; Ronan O’BrienEmail:[email protected]; ronan.o’[email protected] Advisor: Marie Mulvihill Email: [email protected]

Previous ministries: Deputy Howlin was Minister for Health from 1993 to 1994 and Minister for the Environment from 1994 to 1997.Previous committee memberships: Deputy Howlin was a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on the Constitution and the constitutional amendment on children.Previous party positions: Deputy Howlin served as Labour party Chief Whip from 1987 to 1993 and as deputy leader of the Labour Party from 1997 to 2002. He has been Labour spokesperson on justice, finance, health and youth affairs and health and women’s rights and on constitutional matters and law reform, European affairs, and human rights.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Howlin was elected as a Senator in 1982 and served in this role as Labour Party spokesperson on education until 1987. He was Mayor of Wexford from 1986 to 1987. He was also a member of Wexford Borough Council from 1981 to 1993, Wexford County Council from 1985 to 1993 and an Alderman from 1985 to 1993. He was appointed Leas-Cheann Comhairle in June 2007 during the 30th Dáil.Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Howlin is a graduate of St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin. Electoral history: Deputy Howlin was first elected to the Dáil in 1987 as a representative for the Wexford constituency and been elected to the Dáil at every election since. He first ran for the Dáil unsuccessfully in 1982 but was subsequently elected Senator upon the nomination of the Taoiseach in 1983.

Minister of State: Brian Hayes TD Special Responsibility: Public service reform and OPW Appointed: March 2011Political party: Fine Gael Contact details for the

Minister’s office: Tel: 01 6476000 (Department) 01 6183567 (Dáil)Fax: 01 6612531Email: [email protected] Secretary: Suzanne MitchellEmail: [email protected]: 01 6476132

Previous party positions: Deputy Hayes was previously secretary to the Fine Gael Group at the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation. Deputy Hayes was spokesperson on housing, house prices and urban renewal from 1997 to 2000; Northern Ireland from 2000 to 2001; social and community affairs from 2001 to 2002; education and science from 2007 to 2010; and was deputy party spokesperson on finance with special responsibility for public expenditure in the 30th Dáil.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Hayes was a member of Seanad Éireann between 1995 and 1997 during which time he was the spokesperson on the environment. He was again elected to the Seanad in 2002 where he was party leader and spokesperson on defence and Northern Ireland.Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Hayes attended St. Patrick’s, Maynooth and University of Dublin, Trinity College. He was a secondary school teacher before entering politics. Electoral history: Deputy Hayes was first elected to the Dáil for the Dublin South West constituency in 1997 having unsuccessfully contested the 1994 by-election for Dublin South-Central. He was elected as a member of Seanad Éireann in 1995 as a Taoiseach’s nominee. He was elected to the Seanad in 2002 on the cultural and educational panel. He was re-elected to the Dáil in the 2007 and 2011 general elections.

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Fianna Fáil: Michael McGrath TD (Finance)Leinster House Tel: 01 6183801Constituency: Cork South Central


Fianna Fáil: Sean Fleming TD (Public Sector Reform)Leinster House Tel: 01 6183472Constituency: Laois OffalyEmail: [email protected]

Sinn Féin: Mary Lou McDonald TD (Public Expenditure and Reform)Leinster House Tel: 01 6183230Constituency: Dublin Central



Oireachtas CommitteesJoint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform This Committee – and the select Committees of Dáil and Seanad Eireann of which it is made – has the power to consider: • Legislation proposed by the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform • Spending by these Departments • Matters of policy for which each Minister is officially responsible • Public affairs administered by the Department • Policy issues arising from Value for Money and Policy Reviews conducted or commissioned by the Department • Statutory instruments and EU legislation

Clerk to the CommitteeRonan LenihanEmail: [email protected]: 01 618 3169

Chairperson Alex White TD(Labour Party)Tel: 01 6183972Email: [email protected]

Deputy White is the TD for Dublin South and was elected to Seanad Éireann for the first time in 2007. He was Seanad Group leader and spokesperson on children, foreign affairs, Northern Ireland, enterprise, trade & employment and equality & immigration. In the 30th Dáil he sat on the committee on Members’ Interests of Seanad Éireann, the committee of selection of Seanad Éireann, the Seanad Éireann committee on procedure and privileges, the joint committee on the Constitution and the joint committee on the Constitutional Amendment on children. He was a member of South Dublin County Council from 2004 to 2007 (Deputy Mayor 2006 to 2007) and sat on transportation and Sports & Recreation Strategic Policy Committees. He is currently a member of the ICTU and the Irish Society for Labour Law. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin and King’s Inns, Dublin, Senator White is a barrister by profession and was formerly a producer in RTE.

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Richard Boyd-Barret United Left

Thomas P. Broughan Labour


Jim Daly Fine Gael

Pearse Doherty Sinn Féin

Stephen Donnelly Independent

Sean Fleming Fianna Fail

Joe Higgins United Left



Peter Mathews Fine Gael

Mary Lou McDonald Sinn Féin

Michael McGrath Fianna Fail




Kieran O’Donnell Fine Gael

Arthur Spring Labour


Liam Twomey Fine Gael

Alex White Independent

Senators:

Sean D Barrett Independent

Thomas Byrne Fianna Fáil

Michael D’Arcy Fine Gael

Aideen Hayden Labour

Tom Sheahan Fine Gael

Katherine Zappone Independent

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Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Secretary General:

Robert Watt

Expenditure Policy Evaluation & Management

Remuneration & Industrial Relations


Deirdre Hanlon

Health, Pension Policy and EU/NI

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Labour Market & Enterprise

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Michael Errity

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Assistant Secretary: David

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The Department Secretary General: Robert Watt Appointed: April 2011Private Secretary: Patricia ScanlonContact Details for Secretary Generals Office:Tel: 01 6318136

Previous Positions: Prior to his appointment as Secretary General Mr. Watt was Assistant Secretary in the Sectoral Policy Division of the Department of Finance and had responsibility for overall expenditure policy including the Comprehensive Spending Review, capital investment policy and managing the annual Estimates process. He has also worked in a range of roles within the Department as well as previously

working with Indecon Economic Consultants and London Economics.Education: He has a primary degree in business studies and a masters in economics.


(i) Expenditure Policy Evaluation & Management• Assistant Secretary: Deirdre Hanlon• Principals: Ronnie Downes; David Denny;

Dermot Quigley; John Burke; Marie Mc Laughlin

CMOD & e-Government

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(ii) Health, Pension Policy and EU/NI• Assistant Secretary: John C O’Connell• Principals: Tom Heffernan; John Reilly; David

Owens; Tony Jordan; Gearoid O’Keeffe; Dermot Byrne

(iii) Labour Market & Enterprise Policy• Assistant Secretary:Assistant Secretary: David Moloney• Principals:Principals: Judith Brady; Ronan Gallagher; John

Conlon; Dermot Nolan; Stephanie O’Donnell; Brendan Ellison

(iv) Remuneration & Industrial Relations• Assistant Secretary:Assistant Secretary: Michael Errity• Principals:Principals: Tom Clarke; Mary Austin; Oonagh

Buckley; Colin Menton; John Dolan

(v) CMOD & e-Government• Assistant Secretary:Assistant Secretary: Tim Duggan• Principals:Principals: Catherine Curley; Jim Leahy

(vi) Public Service Reform and Delivery• Programme Director:Programme Director: Paul Reid• Principals:Principals: David Feeney; Owen Jacob; Evelyn

O’Connor

(vii) Government Reform Unit• Assistant Secretary:Assistant Secretary: William Beausang• Principals:Principals: Aine Stapleton; Finbarr Kell

(viii) Civil Service Human Resource• Director:Director: Patricia Coleman• Principals:Principals: Louise Mc Girr; Dermot Keane;

Mary Mc Keon; Grainne Mc Guckin; Triona Quill

(ix) The Office of the Chief Medical Officer• Chief Medical Office: Dr Thomas O’Connell

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Agencies and Associated BodiesCommission for Public Service Appointments18 Lower Leeson Street Dublin 2 Tel: 01 8779940Fax: 01 8779950Email: [email protected] Website: www.cpsa-online.ie

Members of the Commission: Ms. Emily O’Reilly, Ombudsman; Mr. Justice Matthew P. Smith, Chairman, Standards in Public Office Commission; Mr. Seán Barrett, TD, An Ceann Comhairle; Mr Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; Mr Martin Fraser, Secretary General to the Government.

The Commission is an independent statutory body which sets standards for recruitment and selection to the Civil Service and to certain other public service organisations, and monitors compliance with these standards. It also grants licences to certain public service bodies to recruit on their own behalf or with the assistance of private sector

recruitment agencies approved by the Commission.

Office of the Information Commissioner18 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2Tel: 01 6395689 (LoCall 1890 253 238)Fax: 01 6395674 / 01 6395676Email: [email protected] Website: www.oic.gov.ie

Information Commissioner: Emily O’ReillyDirector General: Patrick WhelanThe Office of the Information Commissioner was established under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 1997, as amended in 2003. The Information Commissioner’s main functions are to review decisions made by public bodies in relation to FOI requests, to keep the FOI legislation under review and to foster an attitude of openness among public bodies.

Office of the Ombudsman18 Lower Leeson StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6395600 (LoCall 1890 223 030)Fax: 01 6395674 / 01 6395676Email: [email protected] Website: www.ombudsman.gov.ie

Ombudsman: Emily O’ReillyDirector General: Pat WhelanThe Office of the Ombudsman was established under the Ombudsman Act 1980. It investigates complaints about the administrative actions of Government departments, the Health Service Executive, local authorities and An Post.

Public Appointments ServiceChapter House26-30 Abbey Street UpperDublin 1Ireland Tel: 01 8587400 (LoCall 1890 449 999)Fax: 01 8587500 / 01 8587574Email: [email protected] Website: www.publicjobs.ie

Chairperson: Eddie SullivanChief Executive: Bryan AndrewsThe Public Appointments Service was established under the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) Act 2004. It is the centralised provider of recruitment, assessment, and selection services for the Civil Service, and also provides recruitment and consultancy services to local authorities, health boards, the Garda Siochana and other public bodies.

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Standards in Public Office Commission18 Lower Leeson StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6395666Fax: 01 6395684Email: [email protected] Website: www.sipo.gov.ie

Chairperson: Mr. Justice Matthew P. SmithCommission Secretary: David Waddell The Standards in Public Office Commission is an independent body which was established by the Standards in Public Office Act 2001. It has a supervisory role under:The Ethics in Public Office Act 1995, as amended by the Standards in Public Office Act 2001, (the Ethics Acts)The Electoral Act 1997, as amended, (the Electoral Acts)The Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Act 2001, (the Party Leaders’ Allowance Act)

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Chapter 10 Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade


• International political relations with states and international bodies• Bilateral economic relations with other states• Administering Irish Aid in Developing Countries• Support to Irish emigrants abroad• Negotiation of international

agreements• Issuing of passports and provision of Consular Services• Protocol – visits of dignitaries to Ireland and visits abroad by the President• External Trade Promotion Strategy and Co-ordination

IntroductionThe Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade originates from the very first meeting of Dáil Éireann on January 21st 1919. Following the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the department was renamed the Department of External Affairs in 1922. It adopted the name the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1971, which it kept for 30 years. The department became that of Foreign Affairs and Trade in March 2011 following the formation of a coalition government between Fine Gael and the Labour Party.

The department is responsible for the conduct of Ireland’s relations with other states and international organisations. It comprises of 12 divisions in its Dublin headquarters as well as a network of embassies, consulates and multilateral missions, which carry out diplomatic relations with 174 countries around the world.

The department’s mission statement is to advance Ireland’s interests and values in the European Union and in the wider world, to promote Ireland’s contribution to international peace, security and development, and to protect its citizens abroad and to pursue reconciliation and partnership on the island of Ireland.

Following the General Election in 2011, the trade portfolio has been reassigned from the former Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

OfficesIveagh House, 80 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2.(Office of the Minister; Minister of State and Secretary General; Northern Ireland, UK and North America Division; Irish Abroad unit; Political division; Press office; Protocol section; Library; Registry.)

Hainault House,69-71 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2.(Consular service; Trade and Promotion Division; Legal division.)

76-78 Harcourt St,Dublin 2.(Corporate services division;; European Union division; Translation section; ICT unit.)

Riverstone House, 23-27 Henry Street, LimerickIrish Aid.

13-15 Hatch Street Dublin 2Irish Aid.

Molesworth Building,Molesworth Street, Dublin 2.(Passport office; Finance unit.)

Main Telephone Number: 01 4780822 (LoCall: 1890 426 700)Fax Number: 01 4781484Email: [email protected] Email protocol: [email protected]: www.dfa.ie


Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Eamon Gilmore TDAppointed: March 2011Political Party: Labour Party

Contact details for Minister’s office: Tel: 01 4082137 (Department); 01 6183566 (Dáil); 01 4082275 (Press) Email: [email protected] (Department); [email protected] (Dáil)Private Secretary: Mary Connery Email: [email protected] Advisors: Mark Garrett; Colm O’Reardon; Jean O’Mahoney

Previous ministries: From 1994 to 1997, Deputy Gilmore served as Minister of State for the Marine.Previous committee memberships: Deputy Gilmore was a member of joint Oireachtas committee on the environment and local government from 2002 to 2007. He was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Previous party positions: From 2002 until 2007, Deputy Gilmore was Labour spokesperson for the environment, housing and local government. He became the leader of the Labour Party in 2007. He has also served as chairperson of Labour’s policy committee and was a member of the national executive committee of the Labour Party. Previous political roles: Deputy Gilmore was president of University College Galway’s students’ union from 1974 to 1975 and later became president of the Union of Students in Ireland from 1976 to 1978. He was elected to Dublin County Council in 1985. Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Gilmore attended Garbally College, Ballinasloe and University College, Galway. He worked as full time public representative and trade union organiser with the IGTWU prior to entering politics. Electoral history: Deputy Gilmore was first elected to the Dáil for the Dún Laoghaire constituency in the 1989 general election. He has been re-elected at every election since 1989, initially for the Workers’ Party, subsequently for Democratic Left, and now as a Labour party candidate.

Minister of State: Jan O’Sullivan TDSpecial responsibility: Trade and development Appointed: March 2011Political party: Labour PartyContact details for the

Minister’s office: Tel: 01 4780822 (Department); 01 6183670 (Dáil)Email: [email protected] (Dáil)Private Secretary: Luke Feeney Email: [email protected]

Previous committee memberships: During the 28th Dáil, from 1998 to 2002, Deputy O’Sullivan was a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on justice, equality and women’s rights. She was a member of the all-party committee on the Constitution from 2002 to 2007 and was vice-chairperson of both the joint Oireachtas committee and the Dáil select committee on education and science during these years. She was most recently a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on justice, equality, defence and women’s rights and vice-chairperson of the committee on health and children.Previous party positions: In the 28th Dáil, Deputy O’Sullivan was spokesperson on justice and equality and in the 29th Dáil, she was spokesperson on education and science. In the 30th Dáil, from 2007 to 2011, she was appointed as spokesperson for health. Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy O’Sullivan was elected to Limerick City Council in 1985. She served as a member of the Mid-Western Health Board from 1991 to 2003 and was also Mayor of Limerick from 1993 to 1994. She was elected to the 20th Seanad on the Administrative Panel and became leader of the Labour Seanad group and served from 1993 to 1997. Education/Previous occupation: Deputy O’Sullivan is a graduate of University of Dublin, Trinity College and worked as a pre-school teacher prior to entering politics. Electoral history: Deputy O’Sullivan was first elected to the Dáil in 1998 following a by-election in the Limerick East constituency and has subsequently been re-elected in the 2002, 2007 and 2011 general elections.

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Minister of State: Lucinda Creighton TD Special Responsibility: European AffairsAppointed: March 2011Political party: Fine Gael

Contact details for Minister’s office:Tel: 01 4780822 (Foreign Affairs and Trade); 01 6194399 (Department of An the Taoiseach); 01 6183527 (Dáil)Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Secretary: Tony Kavanagh Email: [email protected] Advisor: Stephen O’SheaEmail: [email protected]

Previous committee memberships: Deputy Creighton was a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on European scrutiny and on European affairs from 2007 to 2010. Deputy Creighton was also a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on justice, defence, equality and women’s rights.Previous party positions: Deputy Creighton was spokesperson on European affairs. She was also deputy spokesperson on justice and law reform with special responsibility for immigration, integration and equality.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Creighton was a member of Dublin City Council from 2004 to 2007. She was also a member of the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee.Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Creighton attended University of Dublin, Trinity College where she obtained an LL.B. in 2002. She was called to the bar in 2007. She also obtained an MA in International Relations from Dublin City University.Electoral history: Lucinda Creighton was first elected to the 30th Dáil in 2007 for the Dublin South-East constituency and was re-elected in 2011 for the same constituency.


Fianna Fáil: Seán Ó Fearghaíl TDLeinster House Tel: 01 6183948Constituency: Kildare SouthEmail: [email protected]

Fianna Fáil: Micheál Martin TD (Northern Ireland)Leinster House Tel: 01 6184350Constituency: Cork South CentralEmail: [email protected]

Sinn Féin: Pádraig MacLochlainn TDLeinster House Tel: 01 6184061Constituency: Donegal North EastEmail: [email protected]


Oireachtas Committees

(i) Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and TradeThis Committee and the Select Committees of Dáil and Seanad Eireann of which it is composed – has the power to consider: (a) matters of policy for which the Minister is officially responsible,(b) public affairs administered by the Department,(c) policy issues arising from Value for Money and Policy Reviews conducted or commissioned by the Department,(d) Government policy in respect of bodies under the aegis of the Department,(e) policy issues concerning bodies which are partly or wholly funded by the State or which are established or appointed by a member of the Government or the Oireachtas,(f) the general scheme or draft heads of any Bill published by the Minister,(g) statutory instruments, including those laid or laid in draft before either House or both Houses and those made under the European Communities Acts 1972 to 2009,(h) strategy statements laid before either or both Houses of the Oireachtas pursuant to the Public Service Management Act 1997,(i) annual reports or annual reports and accounts,

required by law, and laid before either or both Houses of the Oireachtas, of the Department or bodies referred to in paragraph (4)(d) and (e) and the overall operational results, statements of strategy and corporate plans of such bodies, and(j) such other matters as may be referred to it by the Dáil and/or Seanad from time to time.

Clerk to the Committee Paul KellyEmail: [email protected]: 01 618 3167

Chairperson Pat BreenTD (Fine Gael)Tel: 01 6184224Email: [email protected]

Deputy Breen is the representative for the Clare constituency and was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 2002. He retained his seat and became Fine Gael’s Spokesperson on Overseas Aid & Human Rights in the 30th Dáil and served as Chairman of the Dáil’s Sub-Committee on Overseas Aid prior to the General Election. He also served as his Party’s Deputy Spokesperson on Transport and Enterprise, Trade and Employment with special responsibility for small business. He has served on a number of Dáil Committee’s including the European Affairs Committee, the Oireachtas Transport Committee,

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Pat Breen Fine Gael

Eric Byrne Labour

Bernard J. Durkan Fine Gael

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Sinn Féin


Dara Murphy Fine Gael

Dan Neville Fine Gael

Seán Ó Fearghaíl Fianna Fáil

Maureen O’Sullivan Independent

Senators:


Mark Daly Fianna Fáil

Lorraine Higgins Labour


David Norris Independent

Jim Walsh Fianna Fáil

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the Privileges and Procedures, the House Services Committee and the Committee on Enterprise and Small Business. Prior to Pat’s election to Dáil Éireann, he was a member of Clare County Council and the Vocational Educational Committee from June 1999 to 2002.

ii). Joint Committee on European Union Affairs

The work of the Joint Committee on European Affairs is primarily informed by the policies and legislative proposals which emanate from the European Union including the Committee’s priorities in relation to EU matters which are of special importance for Ireland. At the beginning of each year the Committee draws up a work programme which sets out the main topics the Committee will address during the coming year. An interim review of the work programme is undertaken after 6 months to ensure that all items listed are still relevant and are being progressed as planned and also to determine whether any further items need to be added to the work programme.

Inter-parliamentary co-operation plays an important part in the work of the Committee. The Committee maintains close links and exchanges strategic information with its counterpart committees in the other 26 EU national parliaments and with the European Parliament. These committees meet every six months in the member state holding the rotating EU Presidency under the umbrella of COSAC and can remain in close contact and exchange information, ideas and experiences through the IPEX inter-parliamentary EU information exchange website.

The Committee holds discussions and exchanges views with invited speakers on a wide range of subjects, including for example EU institutional reform, agriculture and trade policy, enlargement and the EU’s relations with its immediate neighbours. It holds a monthly meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs or the Minister of State for European Affairs prior to each meeting of the General Affairs and External Relations Council in Brussels

Clerk to the Committee Siobhán MaloneEmail: [email protected]: 01 6183945

Chairperson Joe Costello TD (Labour)Tel: 01 6183896Email: [email protected]

Deputy Costello is the current TD for Dublin Central and has been a member of the Oireachtas since his appointment to Seanad Éireann in 1989. He is a former member of several committees including the Dáil Committee on justice, equality, women’s rights and defence, the Sub-Committee of the Barron Report on the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings of 1974, the Joint Committee on European affairs (between 2006 and 2010), the Joint Committee on EU scrutiny, the Sub-Committee on Irelands future in the European Union (from 2008 to 2009) and the Sub-Committee on the Review of the Role of the

Oireachtas in European Affairs in 2010.

Deputies:

Joe Costello Labour

Paschal Donohoe Fine Gael


Bernard J. Durkan Fine Gael


Séan Kyne Fine Gael

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn Sinn Fein

Joe O’Reilly Fine Gael

Mick Wallace Independent

Senators:

Colm Burke Fine Gael

Fidelma Healy Eames Fine Gael

James Heffernan Labour

Terry Leyden Fianna Fáil

Kathryn Reilly Sinn Fein

Rónán Mullen Independent

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The DepartmentSecretary General: David CooneyAppointed: January 2009Private Secretary: David KeatingContact details for Secretary General’s office: 01 4082133

Previous positions: David Cooney entered the civil service in 1976 and worked in the Department of Agriculture as an executive officer. He joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1979 as a third secretary in the information section. In 1981, he was appointed as a secretary at the Embassy of Ireland to the Holy See. In 1986, he was appointed as Private Secretary to the Secretary-General of the Department of Foreign Affairs. Later, he was involved in European Affairs, as a first secretary in the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the European Union and coordinator of the white paper on Irish foreign policy. He participated in the negotiation of the Good Friday Agreement as head of the political section of the Department of Foreign Affairs. In 1998, he was appointed as a deputy permanent representative of Ireland to the OECD in Paris, France and then as a minister-counsellor in the Embassy of Ireland in France. He twice served as permanent representative to the UN but first as deputy. In between these posts, he was the Assistant Secretary-General at the Department of Foreign Affairs. Prior to taking the Secretary General position, he was the Irish Ambassador in London.Education/Qualifications: Mr Cooney received a BA from the University of Keele, England


(i) Northern Ireland, United Kingdom & North America Division• Director General: Niall Burgess• Counsellors: Kieran Dowling; Conor O’Riordan• First secretaries/Assistant principals: Brian

Cahalane; Gerry Kelly; Cyril Brennan; Rory O’Leary; Michael Sanfey; John Boyd;Gerard McCoy; Margaret Stanley

• Higher executive officers/Third secretaries: Kevin Coyle; Jane Ann Duffy; Peter Hogan; Joanne King; Frank Power; Orlaith Fitzmaurice; Jennifer Whelan; Jerry O’Donovan; Karen Lynch; Micheál Smith; Ben Poole

Irish Abroad and Global Irish Network Unit This unit deals with promoting services that assist

emigrants and administers the financial support that the department directs to groups in the voluntary sector that are engaged in the delivery of services to Irish emigrants.

• Counsellor: Joseph Hackett• First Secretary/Assistant Principal: Karl

Gardner; Emer Whelan• Third secretaries/Higher executive officers:

Celine Byrne; Denise Hanrahan; Albert Rattigan

(ii) Corporate Services Division This division deals with day-to-day management of the department.• Assistant Secretary: Barrie Robinson• Human resources and training • Counsellors: Derek Feely - First secretaries/ Assistant principals: Noeleen

Curran; Mary Browne; Helena Nolan; Sean Tipper

- Higher executive officers/ Third secretaries: Paula Kiernan; Brendan Watters; Michelle Ryan; Cecily McKenna

• Employee Assistance Officer: Úna Meehan • Accommodation - Director of Architectural Services: Mark

McSwiney - Senior Architect: Kevin Wolohan - Assistant Principal: Majella O’Connor - Architectural Assistant: Edwina Cleary - Higher executive officers: David Anderson;

Donal O’Driscoll• Finance, FOI and co-ordination, EU Presidency

Planning, management services, library and archives

- Counsellor: Tim Mawe - First secretaries/ Assistant principals:

Breandán O Caollai; James Farrell.- Higher executive officers/Third secretaries:

Nuala Courtney; John Freir; Maureen McLoughlin; Maureen Sweeney; Ray Walker; Marianne Bolger; Julie O’Brien; Ursula Cordial; Donal O’Connell;Colette Appleby

• Librarian: Órla Gillen• Information communications technology unit - Principal officer: Mary O’Donohue (Acting) - Assistant principals: Eddie McGinn; Andrew

Harwood - Higher executive officers: Liz Finn; Noel

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Secretary General:

David Cooney

Director General:

Niall Burgess

Northern Ireland, United

Kingdom & North America Division

(iii) Development Cooperation Directorate (Irish Aid)This division is responsible for the administration of the Irish overseas aid programme and for the conduct of Irish development policy and is based in Limerick.• Director General: Brendan Rogers• Deputy Director General: Michael Gaffey• Principals/Counsellors/ Principal development

specialists: Barbara Cullinane; Kevin Dowling; John Foyle; Fionnuala Gilsenan; Liam Mac Gabhann; Finbar O’Brien; Vincent O’Neill; Kevin Kelly

• First secretaries/ Assistant principals/ Senior development specialists/ Development Specialists/ Accountants/ Information officers: Mary Barrett; Anne Marie Callan; Orlagh Condron; Robert Meade; Emer O’Brien; Alison Milton; John O’Grady; Carol Hannon; Thomas Tichelmann; Gerry Cunningham; Sonja Carmel Madden; Máire Matthews; Ann Murphy; Margaret Ryan; John Gilroy; Kevin Carroll; Seán O’Donncha; Julie Connell; Grainne O’Neill; John Histon; Michael Tiernan; Nuala O’Brien; Ciara O’Brien; David Bruck; Susan Fraser; Áine Doody; Paul Sherlock; Kevin Colgan; Donal Cronin; Paula Nolan; Elisa Cavacece; Bronagh Carr; Lisa Walshe; Frank Flood; Aidan Fitzpatrick; Seán Hoy; Fiona Quinn; Diarmuid McClean; Douglas Hamilton; Pat Bourne; Hilda O’Riain; Fionnuala Quinlan

• Higher executive officers/ Education officers/ Third secretaries: Thomas Bellew; Patrick

Coleman; Corrina Connelan; Sarah Cooney; Damien Cummins; Richard Daly; Martin Gallagher; Arthur Hendrick; Michael Kennedy; Paula Kenny; Elizabeth Keogh; John Lynam; Anne Maher; Oonagh O’Connor; Robert O’Driscoll; Fiona O’Dwyer; John O’Meara; Mary Ryan; Seamus Ryan; Barbara Wilson

(iv) EuropeDivisionThis division coordinates Ireland’s approach within the EU.• Director General: Anne Barrington• Counsellors: Donal Denham; Adrian McDaid• First secretaries: Sarah Mangan ; Julian Clare;

John O’Sullivan • Third secretaries: Shane Cahill; Laoise Moore;

Katie Morrisroe

(v) Legal DivisionThis division provides the Department with legal advice and has responsibilities in the negotiation of international agreements. • Legal Adviser: James Kingston • Deputy Legal Adviser: Declan Smyth• Assistant legal advisers: Emer Kilcullen; Denise

McQuade; Brídín O’Donoghue; David O’Sullivan; Peter White


Barrie Robinson

Corporate Services Division

Director General: Brendan Rogers

Development Cooperation Directorate (Irish Aid)

Counsellor: Peadar

Carpenter (Acting)

Consular and Passport

Service

Legal Adviser: James

Kingston

Legal Division

Director of

Press and

Information:

Philip Grant

Press Section

Assistant secretary:

Colm Ó Floinn

Trade and Promotion Division

European Division

Director General:

Ann Barrington

Political Division

Political Director:

David Donoghue

Protocol Service

Chief of Protocol:

Orla O’Hanrahan


(vi) Consular and Passport ServiceThis division is responsible for the administration of consular services and the issuing of passports to Irish citizens.• Consular Service• Counsellor: Peadar Carpenter (Acting)• First secretaries/ Assistant principals: Mary

Cusack• Higher executive officers/ Third secretaries:

Rose Gaughan; Máire Farrell; Margaret Carton; Maura Toolan

• Passport Service• Passport Office Dublin - Counsellor: Joe Nugent - Assistant Principal: Fiona Penollar- Higher executive officers: Paul Evans; Tom

Lucas; Theresa McHugh; Monica O’Connor; Rosanna Losty

- Assistant Principal: Kevin Walzer - Higher executive officers: Catherine Aylward;

Bernie Davis; Angela Larkin; Sheila Monaghan; Brian Mulligan

• Passport Office Cork - Assistant Principal: Ray Devine - Higher Executive Officer: Brian Nolan

(vii) Political DivisionThe political division is responsible for international political issues and manages Ireland’s participation in the EU’s common foreign and security policy.• Political Director: David Donoghue• Counsellors: John Biggar; Brian Glynn; Cloin

Wrafter • Assistant principals/ First secretaries: Dearbhla

Doyle; Michael Hurley; Bob Patterson; Eamonn Robinson; Gerard Keown; Jonathan Conlon; Robin Henry; Patricia Cullen; Alma Ní Choigligh

• Third secretaries: Claire Buckley; Nigel Clarke; Siobhan Coyne; Fiona Devlin; Eoghan Duffy; Breda Lee; Anna McGillicuddy; Fiona NiDhonnacha; Aoife Ní Fhearghaill; Mary O’Connor; Caroline Phelan; Feargas De Stok

• Middle East Unit• Counsellor: Pat Kelly• Assistant principals/ First secretaries: Stephen

Dawson; Grainne Hayes• Third secretary: Elaine Hollowed

(viii) Trade and Promotion DivisionThis division includes the bilateral economic relations section, which deals with Ireland’s bilateral economic and trade relations with countries throughout the world; the cultural section which administers Ireland’s cultural relations programme; and the information section. • Assistant secretary: Colm Ó Floinn• Counsellor: Kay Coll; Aidan O’Hara • Assistant principals: Cormac Gallagher; Aisling

O’Carroll• Higher executive officers/Third secretaries:

Susan Bardon; Helena Keleher; Louise KellyAsia and Latin America Unit

• Counsellor: Cliona Manahan• Assistant principals/ First secretaries: Niall

Brady; FX O’Donoghue• Third secretaries: Catherine Bannon; Stephanie

O’Brien• Evaluation & Audit Unit• Principals/Counsellors/ Principal development

specialists: William Carlos• First secretaries/ Assistant principals/ Senior

development specialists/ accountants: Anne Barry; Tom Hennessy; Seamus O’Grady; Donal Murray; Patrick McManus; Áine Hearns; Laura Leonard; Tomas Chambers

• Press SectionThis section is responsible for informing the domestic and international media about developments in Irish foreign policy.

• Head of Press and Information: Philip Grant• Third secretaries: Amanda Bane; Clare Brosnan;

Olive Nagle • Protocol Service

This division is responsible for the organisation and management of visits of State and Government heads to Ireland and of visits abroad by the President, as well as the administration of Ireland’s obligations under the Vienna Convention.

• Chief of Protocol: Orla O’Hanrahan• First Secretaries: Nigel Hutson; Myles Geiran;

Marion O’Donnell • Higher executive officers/Third secretaries:

Cathy Barnicle; Theresa Tuite.• Strategy and Performance Unit

This unit reviews the operations and systems of the department in Ireland and at its embassies and offices overseas, and makes recommendations for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the department.

• Third Secretary: Colum Hatchell

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Irish Embassies and Permanent Missions AbroadArgentina (also accredited to Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay)Ambassador James McIntyreEmbassy of IrelandAvenida del Libertador 10686th FloorC1112ABN Buenos AiresTel: +54 11 5787 0801Fax: +54 11 5787 0802Email: [email protected] Website: www.irlanda.org.ar

Australia(also accredited to Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands)Ambassador Noel WhiteEmbassy of Ireland20 Arkana StreetYarralumlaACT 2600CanberraTel: +61 2 6273 1673Fax: +61 2 6273 3741Email: [email protected]

AustriaAmbassador James BrennanEmbassy of Ireland and Permanent Mission of Ireland to the International Organisations in ViennaRotenturmstrasse 16-18Fifth Floor1010 ViennaTel: +43 1 715 4246Fax: +43 1 713 6004Email: [email protected]

BelgiumAmbassador Eamonn Mac AodhaEmbassy of IrelandChaussee d’Etterbeek / Etterbeekse Steenweg 180 (5th Floor) Bruxelles 1040 Brussel Tel: +32-2-282 3400 Fax: +32-2-282 3396 Email: [email protected]

Delegation to Partnership for PeaceAmbassador Brian NasonLiaison Office of IrelandV-BuildingNATO Headquarters1110 Brussels BelgiumTel: +32 2 707 2693 Fax: +32 2 707 2634

BrazilAmbassador Frank SheridanEmbaixada da Irlanda / Embassy of IrelandSHIS QL 12Conjunto: 05Casa: 09 Lago SulBrasília-DFBrazilCEP: 71630-255Tel: +55 61 3248 8800 Fax: +55 613248 8816 Email: [email protected]

Bulgaria(also accredited to Armenia and Georgia)Ambassador John Rowan Embassy of IrelandPlatinum Business Centre26-28 Bacho Kiro StreetSofia 1000Tel: + 3592 985 34 25 Fax: + 3592 983 33 02 Email: [email protected]

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Canada(also accredited to Jamaica)Ambassador Ray BassettEmbassy of IrelandSuite 1105130 Albert StreetOttawaK1P 5G4Ontario Tel: +1-613 233 6281 Fax: +1-613 233 5835 Email: [email protected]

People’s Republic of China(also accredited to Mongolia)Ambassador Declan KelleherEmbassy of Ireland3 Ri Tan Dong luChaoyang DistrictBeijing 100600Tel: +86 10 6532 2691/2914Fax: +86 10 6532 6857Email: [email protected]: www.embassyofireland.cn

Council of Europe – StrasbourgAmbassador Peter Gunning Permanent Representative to Council of Europe11 boulevard du Président Edwards67000 Strasbourg FranceTel: +33 3 88 144 920 Fax: +33 3 88 144 925Email: [email protected]

CyprusAmbassador Pat ScullionEmbassy of Ireland7 Aiantas Street1082 NicosiaPostal Address:Embassy of IrelandP.O.Box 238481686 NicosiaTel: +357 22 660 049Fax: +357 22 660 050Email: [email protected]

Czech Republic(also accredited to Ukraine)Embassy of IrelandAmbassador Alison Kelly Velvyslanectví IrskaTrziste 13118 00 Prague Tel: +420 257 530 061 Fax: +420 257 531 387 Email: [email protected]: www.embassyofireland.cz

Denmark(also accredited to Iceland)Ambassador Brendan ScannellEmbassy of IrelandǾstbanegade 212100 Copenhagen Tel: +45 35 47 3200 Fax: + 45 35 43 1858 Email: [email protected]

Egypt(also accredited to Jordan, Lebanon, Sudan and Syria)Ambassador Isolde Moylan Embassy of Ireland22 Hassan Assem St Zamalek Cairo Postal Address:Embassy of IrelandP.O. Box 2681Zamalek Cairo Tel: +202 27358264 Fax: +202 27362863 Email: [email protected]

EstoniaAmbassador Peter McIvor Embassy of IrelandVene 210123 TallinnEstoniaTel: + 372 6811 888 Fax: + 372 6811 889 Email: [email protected]

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EthiopiaAmbassador Síle MaguireEmbassy of Ireland Kazanches, Guinea Conakry StreetAddis AbabaPostal AddressP.O Box 9585Addis AbabaEthiopia Tel: +251 11 518 0500 Fax: +251 11 552 3032 Email: [email protected]

FinlandAmbassador Dermot Brangan Erottajankatu 7 A 00130 Helsinki Postal Address: PL 33 00131 Helsinki Postal Address:P.O. Box 3300131 HelsinkiTel: +358 9682 4240 Fax: +358 9682 4240 Email: [email protected]

France(also accredited to Monaco)Ambassador Paul KavanaghEmbassy of Ireland 12 Avenue Foch75116 ParisTel: + 33 1 4417 6700Fax: + 33 1 4417 6750Email: [email protected]: www.embassyofireland.fr

Germany, Federal Republic ofAmbassador Dan Mulhall Embassy of IrelandJägerstraße 51D-10117 Berlin Tel: +49 30 220 720 Fax: +49 30 220 72299 Email: [email protected]: www.embassyofireland.de

Greece(also accredited to Albania and Serbia)Ambassador Charles Sheehan Embassy of Ireland7 Leoforos VasileosKonstantinou106 74 AthensTel: +30 210 723 2771 Fax: +30 210 729 3383 Email: [email protected]

Holy SeeAmbassador Noel Fahey Embassy of Ireland to the Holy SeeVilla SpadaVia Giacomo Medici, 100153 RomeTel: + 39 06 581 0777 Fax: + 39 06 589 5709Note: In November 2011, the Government announced it was to close the Irish Embassy at the Holy See. At the time of publication, no date had been given for closure.

Hungary(also accredited to Montenegro)Ambassador Martin GreeneEmbassy of IrelandBank CentreSzabadság tér 1054 BudapestTel: +36 1 301 4965 Fax: +36 1 302 9599Email: [email protected]

India(also accredited to Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka)Ambassador Feilim McLaughlin Embassy of Ireland230 Jor BaghNew Delhi 110003Tel: +91 11 2462 6733Fax: +91 11 2469 7053Email: [email protected] Website: www.irelandinindia.com

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Iran(also accredited to Afghanistan and Pakistan)Ambassador Oliver Grogan Embassy of IrelandNorth Kamranieh Ave.Bonbast Nahid Street, No 8Tehran 19369Tel: +98 21 22803835 / +98 21 2229 7918Fax: +98 21 2283 3730Email: [email protected] Note: In November 2011, the Government announced it was to close the Irish Embassy in Iran. At the time of publication, no date had been given for the closure.

IsraelAmbassador Breifne O’ReillyEmbassy of Ireland, 3 Daniel Frisch Street The Tower, 17th Floor Tel Aviv 64731 Tel: +972 3 6964166 Fax: +972 3 6964160 Email: [email protected]

Italy(also accredited to Libya and San Marino; and to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD))Ambassador Pat HennessyEmbassy of IrelandPiazza di Campitelli 300186 RomeTel: +39 06 697 9121 Fax: +39 06 679 2354 Email: [email protected] Website: www.ambasciata-irlanda.it

JapanAmbassador Brendan ScannellEmbassy of IrelandIreland House 5F2-10-7 KojimachiChiyoda-KuTokyo 102-0083Tel: +81 3 3263 8521 Fax: +81 3 3265 2265Email: [email protected] Website: www.embassy-avenue.jp/ireland

Korea, Republic of(also accredited to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) Ambassador Eamonn McKeeEmbassy of Ireland13F. Leema Building,146-1 Soosong-dong, Chongro-guSeoul, Korea 110-140 Tel: +82 2774 6455 Fax: +82 2774 6458 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.embassyofireland.or.kr/

LatviaAmbassador Aidan Kirwan Alberta iela, 13 Riga LV-1010 Latvia Tel: +371 6703 9370Fax: +371 6703 9371Email: [email protected]

LesothoAmbassador Gerry Gervin P/Bag A67 Tona-Kholo Road Maseru Lesotho Tel: +266 22 314 068 Fax: +266 22 310 028Email: [email protected]

LithuaniaAmbassador Philomena MurnaghanEmbassy of IrelandGedimino pr. 1 LT-01103VilniusTel: +370 5 2629460 Fax: + 370 5 2629462 Email: [email protected]

LuxembourgAmbassador Martin BurkeEmbassy of Ireland 28 route d’Arlon L-1140 Luxembourg Tel: +352 450 6101 Fax: +352 458 820 Email: [email protected]

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Malawi Ambassador Liam MacGabhann Embassy of Ireland3rd Floor Arwa House Capital City LilongweMalawi Tel: +265 1 776 405/408 Fax: +265 1 706 401Email: [email protected]

Malaysia(also accredited to Thailand)Ambassador Eugene HutchisonEmbassy of IrelandThe Amp Walk218 Jalan Ampang50450 Kuala Lumpur Tel: +60 3 2161 2963 Fax: +60 3 2161 3427 Email: [email protected] Website: www.embassyofireland.my

MaltaChargé d’Affaires Gerald O’ConnorEmbassy of IrelandWhitehall Mansions Ta’ Xbiex Seafront Ta’ Xbiex XBX 1026 Tel: 00356 21 334 744 Fax: 00356 21 334 755 Email: [email protected]: www.embassyofireland.org.mt

Mexico(also accredited to Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Peru and Venezuela)Ambassador Eamon HickeyEmbajada de Irlanda Cda. Boulevard Avila Camacho 76-3Col. Lomas de ChapultepecC.P. 11000 Mexico, D.F.Tel: +5255 5520 5803 Fax: +5255 5520 5892Email: [email protected]

Mozambique(also accredited to Angola and Botswana)Ambassador Ruairí de Burca Embassy of IrelandAvenida Julius Nyerere 3332MaputoTel: +258 21 491 440 Fax: +258 21 493 023Email: [email protected]: www.irishembassy.com.mx

NetherlandsAmbassador Mary WhelanEmbassy of IrelandScheveningseweg 112 2584AEThe Hague Netherlands Tel: + 31 70 363 0993 Fax: +31 70 361 7604Email: [email protected] Website: www.irishembassy.nl

Nigeria, Federal Republic of(also accredited to Ghana, Liberia, Senegal and Sierra Leone)Ambassador Patrick Fay Embassy of Ireland11 Negro CresentMaitama DistrictAbujaTel: + 234 9 4620611 Fax: + 234 9 4131805Email: [email protected]: www.irishembassy-nigeria.net

NorwayAmbassador Angela O’FarrellEmbassy of IrelandHaakon VII’s Gate 10244 OsloNorwayTel: +47 2201 7200 Fax: +47 2201 7201Website: www.embassyofireland.no

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Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)(also accredited to UNESCO)Ambassador Michael ForbesPermanent Delegate to OECD12 Avenue Foch75116 ParisFranceTel: +33 1 4417 6713Fax: +33 1 4417 6770Email: [email protected]

Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)Ambassador Eoin O’LearyPermanent Mission of Ireland to the International Organisations in ViennaRotenturmstrasse 16-18 5th FloorA-1010 ViennaAustriaTel: +43 1 715 7698 26 Fax: +43 1 715 5755

Palestinian National Authority Representative OfficeIrish Representative Dympna Hayes Palestinian National Authority Representative OfficeAl Watania Towers - 2nd FloorAl BirehRamallahPostal Address: PO Box 4174Al BirehWest Bank PAorPO Box 55292JerusalemIsraelTel: +970 2 240 6811 Fax: +970 2 240 6816Email: [email protected] Website: www.irishrep.ps Permanent Representation of Ireland to the European UnionPermanent Representative Rory Montgomery89/93 Rue Froissart 1040 Brussels Tel: +32 2 230 8580 Fax: +32 2 230 3203 Email: [email protected]

PolandAmbassador Eugene HutchinsonEmbassy of Irelandul. Mysia 56th Floor 00-496 WarsawTel: +48 22 849 66 33Fax: +48 22 849 84 31Email: [email protected]: www.embassyofireland.pl

Portugal(also accredited to Morocco)Ambassador Declan O’Donovan Avenida da Liberdade No 200, 4th Floor 1250-147 Lisbon Tel: + 351 21 330 8200Fax: +351 21 397 7363 Email: [email protected]

Romania(also accredited to Moldova)Ambassador Oliver Grogan50 - 52 Buzesti St Floor 3 Sector 1 Bucharest 011015 Romania Tel: + 40 21 3102131/141Fax: + 40 21 311 2285 Email: [email protected]

Russian Federation(also accredited to Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan)Ambassador Philip McDonagh Grokholski Pereulok 5 Moscow 129010 Tel: +7 495 937 5911 Fax: +7 495 680 0623Email: [email protected]

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Saudi Arabia(also accredited to Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates)Ambassador Niall HolohanEmbassy of IrelandDiplomatic QuarterRiyadhPostal Address: P.O. Box 94349Riyadh 11693Tel: + 966-1-488-2300 Fax: + 966-1-488-0927 Email: [email protected]: www.embassyofireland.org.sa

Sierra LeoneAmbassador Patrick Fay Embassy of Ireland11 Negro CresentMaitama DistrictAbujaTel: + 234 9 4620611 Fax: + 234 9 4131805Email: [email protected]: www.irishembassy-nigeria.net

Singapore(also accredited to Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia and the Philippines) Ambassador Joseph HayesEmbassy of IrelandIreland House541 Orchard RoadLiat Towers8th FloorSingapore 238881Tel: +65 6238 7616 Fax: +65 6238 7615Email: [email protected]: www.embassyofireland.sg

Slovak Republic(also accredited to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)Ambassador Brian McElduffCarlton Savoy BuildingMostova 2 811 02 Bratislava 1Tel: +421 2 5930 9613 Fax: +421 2 5443 0690Email: [email protected]

Slovenia(also accredited to Bosnia & Herzegovina and Croatia)Ambassador Tom Brady Embassy of IrelandPalaca KapiteljPoljanski nasip 61000 LjubljanaSloveniaTel: +386 1 300 8970 Fax: +386 1 282 1096 Email: [email protected]

South Africa(also accredited to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe)Ambassador Brendan McMahon Embassy of IrelandSouthern Life Plaza1059 Schoeman Street (Corner Festival Street)Arcadia 0083Pretoria Postal Address:P.O. Box 4174Pretoria 0001Tel: +27 12 342 5062 Fax: + 27 12 342 4752Email: [email protected]: www.embassyireland.org.za

Spain(also accredited to Andorra and Tunisia)Ambassador His Excellency Justin Harman Embassy of IrelandIreland House Paseo de la Castellana 46-4º 28046 Madrid Tel: +34 91 436 4093 Fax: +34 91 435 1677 Email: [email protected]

SwedenAmbassador James CarrollHovslagargatan 511148 StockholmSweden Tel: +46 8 5450 4040 Fax: +46 8 660 1353Email: [email protected]: http://www.embassyofireland.se

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Switzerland(also accredited to Algeria and Liechtenstein)Ambassador His Excellency Martin BurkeEmbassy of IrelandKirchenfeldstrasse 68CH-3005 BerneTel: +41-31-352-1442 Fax: +41-31-352-1455 Email: [email protected]

Tanzania(also accredited to Burundi, Eritrea and Kenya)Ambassador Lorcan FullamEmbassy of Ireland 353 Toure DriveP.O. Box 9612Dar-es-SalaamTel: +255 22 2602 355 Fax: +255 22 2602 367 Email: [email protected]

Turkey(also accredited to Azerbaijan, Iran, Pakistan)Ambassador Kenneth ThompsonEmbassy of Ireland Ugur Mumcu Caddesi No. 88MNG BinasiB Blok Kat 3GaziosmanpasaAnkara 06700Tel: +90-312-459 1000 Fax: +90-312-459 1022 Email: [email protected]

Uganda(also accredited to Rwanda)Ambassador Kevin Kelly25 Yusuf Lule Road PO Box 7791Kampala Tel: +256 41 7713 000Fax: + 256 41 4344 353Email: [email protected]

United Arab Emirates Ambassador Ciaran MaddenEmbassy of Ireland1 and 2 Khalifa Al Suwaidi Development19th Street (off 32nd Street)Al BateenAbu Dhabi United Arab Emirates Tel: 00 971 (0)2 678 9600 Fax: 00 971 (0)2 679 0060Website: http://www.embassyofireland.ae

United KingdomAmbassador Bobby McDonagh17 Grosvenor Place London SW1X 7HR Tel: +44 207 235 2171 Fax: +44-20-7589-8450

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)(also accredited to OECD)Ambassador Michael Forbes, Permanent Delegate to UNESCO12 Avenue Foch75116 ParisFranceTel: +33 1 4417 6713Fax: +33 1 4417 6770Email: dl.ireland(a)unesco-delegations.org

United Nations Geneva Permanent Representative Gerard Corr Rue de Moillebeau 58 Case Postale 3391209 Geneva 19 SwitzerlandTel: +41 22 919 1950 Fax: +41 22 919 1951Email: [email protected]

United Nations New York(also accredited to Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Chad, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Dominica, Ecuador, Gambia, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, Maldives, Mauritius, Nauru, Palau, Panama, San Lucia, Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and the Yemen)Permanent Representative Anne AndersonPermanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations 1 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza885 Second Avenue19th FloorNew York N.Y. 10017Tel: +1 212 421 6934 Fax: +1 212 752 4726Email: [email protected]: http://www.irelandunnewyork.org

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United States of AmericaAmbassador Michael CollinsEmbassy of Ireland2234 Massachusetts AvenueN.W Washington D.C. 20008-2849Tel: +1 202 462 3939Fax: +1 202 232 5993Email: [email protected] Website: www.embassyofireland.org

Vietnam(also accredited to Cambodia and Laos) Ambassador Maeve CollinsVincom City Towers [8F]191 Ba Trieu StreetHai Ba Trung DistrictHanoiVietnam Tel: +84 4 974 3291Fax: +84 4 974 3295Email: [email protected]

West Bank and Gaza Irish Representative Conor O’Riordan Al Watania Towers -2nd FloorAl Bireh, RamallahPostal Address: P.O. Box 4174, Al BirehWest Bank PA of P.O. Box 55292Jerusalem, Israel Tel: +970 2 240 6811 Fax: +970 2 240 6816

Zambia(also accredited to Namibia) Ambassador Tony Cotter6663 Katima Mulilo RoadOlympia Extension P.O. Box 34923Lusaka 10101 Zambia Tel: +2601 291 329Fax: +2601 290 482Email: [email protected]: www.embassyofireland.co.zm

Advisory CommitteesAdvisory Board for Irish AidIrish Aid Department of Foreign AffairsRiverstone House 23/27 Henry StreetLimerickTel: 01 4082000Fax: 01 4082880 Email: [email protected] Website: www.abia.gov.ie

Chairperson: Vincent Herlihy Nora OwenThe Advisory Board for Irish Aid was established in 2002 to provide general oversight and advice to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade on the strategic direction of the Government’s programme of assistance to developing countries. The board is responsible for advising the minister and senior Irish Aid management on the strategic direction of the programme, protecting programme quality, enhancing the independence of the evaluation and audit arrangements, commissioning research and engaging with stakeholders and supporting Irish Aid’s efforts in public affairs.

InterTradeIreland: Trade and Business Development BodyThe Old Gasworks Business ParkKilmorey Street, Newry,Co. DownBT34 2DETel: 048 30834100 Fax: 048 30834155Email: [email protected] Website: www.intertradeireland.com

Chairperson: Dr David Dobbin CBEChief Executive Officer: Liam NellisInterTradeIreland, a trade and business development body is one of six cross-border bodies established under the Belfast Agreement, 1999. Its mission is “to enhance the global competitiveness of the all-island economy to the mutual benefit of Ireland and Northern Ireland through measures such as the creation of knowledge-intensive all-island trade and business development networks and the implementation of all-island trade and business development programmes”. InterTradeIreland aims to identify and develop all-island business opportunities, in addition to helping individual businesses access knowledge and share information in order to build alliances and become more profitable and competitive.

G4S has a broad range of customers around the worldbut our strategic focus is on sectors where safety andsecurity are key. These sectors include:

Government – Securing the delivery of government services and promises athome and abroad.

As a trusted partner to governments worldwide, we secure borders,protect embassies, rehabilitate offenders and keep some of theworld’s most important buildings safe and secure.

Financial Institutions – As protector of the banks’ most precious assets we help moneymake the world go round through efficient cash cycle managementand protection of assets and people across the globe.

Ports & Airports – Ensuring the safety of travellers and the efficiency of theinternational transportation system.

We ensure the safe passage of travellers, crew and cargo and theefficiency of the international transportation system through a fullrange of aviation and maritime security operations spanning 61airports and 81 airlines across 48 countries, and at 45 seaportsworldwide.

G4S Secure Solutions (Ire) Limited51 Bracken RoadSandyford Industrial Estate SandyfordDublin 18

Tel: +353 (01) 217 9100Fax: +353 (01) 217 9114Email: [email protected]: www.g4s.ie

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Chapter 11 Department of Justice and Equality

Offices94 St. Stephen’s GreenDublin 2Tel: 01 6028202 Locall: 1890 221227)Fax:(Office of the Minister, Office of the Secretary General, and Office of the Crime Divisions)

51 St. Stephen’s GreenDublin 2(Internal Audit Division, Corporate Services Division, IT Division, Courts Policy Division, Garda Divisions, Victims of Crime, HR Division, Mutual Assistance and Extradition, Anti Human Trafficking Unit)

Bishops SquareRedmonds HillDublin 2Tel: 01 4790200(Office of the Minister of State and Civil Law Reform Division)

Montague CourtFloor 2Montague StreetDublin 2(International Policy Division, Criminal Law Reform Division, Human Rights Division,


• Law enforcement• Counter-terrorism • Treatment of offenders• Criminal Law and Civil Law• Courts policy• Prison policy • Aspects of the Northern Ireland Peace

Process • Immigration and asylum issues

IntroductionThe Department of Justice and Equality is responsible for Ireland’s policing, court and prison systems, as well as for continuing reform of law and developing policy in relation to equal treatment generally.

The Department’s current mission statement is:

• “To maintain and enhance community security and promote a fairer society through the development of a range of policies and high quality services which underpin:

• the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms consistent with the common good

• the security of the State

• an effective and balanced approach to tackling crime.”


Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence: Alan Shatter TDAppointed: March 2011Political Party: Fine GaelContact Details for Minister’s Office:

Tel: 01 7002041 (Dáil) 01 6028202 (Department) Fax: 01 6028351(Department)Email: [email protected]/[email protected] Secretary: Damien BrennanSpecial Advisor: Thomas Cooney; Jane Lehane

Previous committee memberships: Deputy Shatter was a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children from 2007 and of the joint Oireachtas committee on foreign affairs. Previous party positions: Deputy Shatter Was previously the Fine Gael spokesperson on law reform in 1982 and again from 1987 to 1988; spokesperson on the environment from 1989 to 1991; on Labour in 1991; on justice from 1992 to 1993; on equality and law reform from 1993 to 1994; on health and children from 1997 to 2000; on justice, law reform and defence from 2000 to 2002; on children from 2007 to 2010 and on justice and law reform from 2010 to the creation of the new Dáil in March 2011. Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Shatter was a member of Dublin County Council from 1991 to 1999. He is also a former President of the Irish Council against Blood Sports. Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Shatter attended The High School, Rathgar, Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. He has practiced as a solicitor and is a partner in the firm Gallagher Shatter. Electoral History: Deputy Shatter was first elected to the Dáil in 1981 for the Dublin South Constituency. While he was not elected in the 2002 election, he was re-elected in 2007 and again in 2011.

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Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence

Prisons and Probation Welfare, COSC (National Office for Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence)

13-14 Burgh QuayDublin 2Tel: 01 6167700(Immigration, Asylum and Citizenship Divisions)

Killarney, Co. KerryTel: 064 667 0300(Financial division)

Fax Number: 01 6615461Email: [email protected] Email protocol:[email protected]: www.justice.ie


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Minister of State: Kathleen Lynch TD Special Responsibility: Disability, Older People, Equality & Mental Health Appointed: March 2011Political party: Labour

Contact details for the Minister’s office: Tel: 01 6184034 (Dáil) 01 6354426 (Department) 021 4399930/021 4212463 (Constituency)Fax: 021 4304358 (Constituency)Email: [email protected]

Previous committee memberships: Deputy Lynch was a member of the committee on enterprise and small business from 2002 to 2006; a member of the committee on justice, equality, defence and women’s rights from 2002 to 2007; and a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on health and children in the 30th Dáil. Previous party positions: She was previously convenor for the party.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Lynch was elected to Cork Corporation in 1985 as a member of the Workers party.Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Lynch has always been a full-time public representative.Electoral History: Deputy Lynch was first elected to the Dáil in 1994 following a by-election in the Cork North-Central constituency with the now defunct Democratic Left party. While she failed to gain a seat in the 1997 general election, following a merger between Democratic Left and the Labour party she was re-elected to the Dáil in 2002.


Fianna Fáil: Dara Calleary TD (Justice, Equality and Defence)Leinster House Tel: 01 6183331Constituency: Mayo


Sinn Féin: Jonathan O’Brien TD (Justice, Equality and Defence) Leinster House Tel: 01 6184040Constituency:

Cork North CentralEmail: [email protected]

Minister of State


Oireachtas CommitteesJoint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality This Committee and the select Committees of Dáil and Seanad Eireann of which it is made – has the power to consider:• Matters of policy for which the Minister is officially responsible• Public affairs administered by the Department• Policy issues arising from Value for Money and Policy Reviews conducted or commissioned by the Department • Government policy in respect of bodies under the aegis of the Department• Policy issues concerning bodies which are partly or wholly funded by the State or which are established or appointed by a member of the Government or the Oireachtas• The general scheme or draft heads of any Bill published by the Minister• Statutory instruments• Strategy statements• Annual reports or accounts• EU draft legislative acts, other EU legislative proposals, non legislative documents published by and EU institution • Such other matters as may be referred to it by the Dáil and/or Seanad from time to time

Clerk to the CommitteeAlan GuidonEmail: [email protected]: 01 6183899

Chairperson David Stanton TD (Fine Gael)Tel: 01 6183181Email: [email protected]

Deputy Stanton has represented Cork East in the Dáil since 1997 having been re-elected in 2002 and 2007. He is currently the Party’s spokesperson for defence. He was party front bench spokesperson on social and family affairs, and equality from 2004 until 2007. Prior to this he acted as deputy spokesperson on education and science, and spokesperson on labour affairs, consumer rights and trade from 1997 to 2002. From 2007 until 2010, he was party Assistant Chief Whip (Dáil Reform) with special responsibility for disability issues. In July 2010, he was appointed party spokesperson on defence. Prior to entering politics he was a teacher in St Colman’s Community College in Cork. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree and two diplomas from University College Cork and a Masters Degree from the National University of Ireland.

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Deputies:

Dara Calleary Fianna Fail


Tom Hayes Fine Gael

Seán Kenny Labour

Finian McGrath Independent


David Stanton Fine Gael


Joanna Tuffy Labour

Alan Farrell Fine Gael

Senators:

Ivana Bacik Labour

Paul Bradford Fine Gael

Martin Conway Fine Gael


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Secretary General: Brian PurcellAppointed: July 2011Private Secretary: Denis Griffin Contact details for Secretary General’s Office: Tel: 01 6028316Fax: 01 6789100 Previous Positions: Mr Purcell was appointed as director general of the Irish Prison service in July 2004 after two years as Assistant Secretary to the department. He also served as Chair of the Prison Authority Interim Board.Education: Mr. Purcell was educated in O’Connell’s CBS, UCD and Trinity College Dublin.


(i) An Garda Siochana• Garda Division• Anti-Money Laundering compliance Unit• Crime 1• Crime 2 (Drugs and Organised Crime)• Crime 4 (Firearms and Explosives)• Mutual Assistance and Extradition• Anti-Human Trafficking Unit• International Policy Division• White Paper on Crime Unit

(ii) Justice Services• Prison and Probation Policy• Courts Policy• Casino Gaming Control Section

(iii) Equality• Disability Policy• Diversity and Equality Law• Gender Equality• Traveller Policy

(iv) Immigration and related services• Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service• Reception and Integration Agency

(v) Security • Crime 3

(vi) Law Reform • Criminal Law and Reform• Civil Law Reform

(vii) Business Delivery• Corporate Affairs• Financial Shared Services Centre• Financial Management Unit• IT• Human Resources• Organisation Development Unit• Press and Communications• FOI• Internal Audit• Procurement Strategy Group • Charities Regulation Unit

For security reasons, the Department of Justice and Equality does not provide a detailed divisional breakdown of responsibilities. However in the context of the divisional structure mentioned above, the personnel breakdown of the Department is as follows:

Assistant Secretaries: Robert Browne; Diarmuid Cole; Michael Flahive; Anthony McDermottroe; Stephen Magner; James Martin; Ken O’Leary; Richard Ryan; Noel Waters; Jimmy Martin Principals Higher: Hugh Boyle; Ken Bruton (Head of FSS); Seamus Carroll; Kevin Condon; Alec Dolan; John Hurley; John Kenny; Thomas Maguire; Pauline Moreau; Deaglán Ó Briain; Fergus O’Callaghan; John O’Callaghan; Margaret O’Connor; Martin Power; John Roycroft; Regina Terry; Marion Walsh; Michael WalshPrincipals: Eugene Banks; David Brennan; Catherine Byrne; Garrett Byrne; Brendan Callaghan; Francis Cassidy; Seamus Clifford; Terry Dunne; Joyce Duffy; Richard Fallon; David Fennell; John Garry; Linda Grealy; Gerry Hickey; Walter Johnston; Brendan MacNamara; Gerry McDonagh; Oonagh McPhillips; Deirdre Meenan; Andrew Munro; Anne O’Gorman; Doncha O’Sullivan; Sandra SmithAccountant Grade I: Tim MaverleyAccountants Grade II: Liz Downey; William Doyle; Peadar Hogan; Brendan Kelly; Robert MurrayAssistant Principals Higher: Martina Colville; Kathleen Connolly; Geraldine Coyle; Padraig Devine; Brendan Eiffe; Aileen Harrington; Gerry Hayes; Michael Holohan; Mary Joy; Frank McDermott; Eamonn Mulligan; Caroline Murphy; Una Murphy; Pat Murray; Ella O’Callaghan; Brian

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O’Neill; Matt O’Neill; Deirdre Ni Neill; Michael Quinn; Gerard Roughneen; Eamon Saunders; Catherine Sheridan; George Trimble; Noreen Walsh Assistant Principals: Anne Barry; Noeleen Behan; Dara Breathnach; Mary Burke; Denis Byrne; Una Costello; Niall Cullen; Anne Delaney; Teresa Doolan; Antoinette Doran, Anne Farrell; Yvonne Furey; Martina Glennon; Stephen Hayden; Billy Keane; Neville Kenny; Janet Lacey; Catherine Linehan; Seamus Long; Anne Maher; Frank Maher; Siobhan McCabe; Mary McKenna; Jane McKevitt; Pamela McLoughlin; Therese Molyneaux; Sean Murphy; Bridin Ní Dhonnghaile; Mary O’Callaghan; Con O’Carroll; Breandán Ó Cathasaigh; Charlie O’Connell; Shane O’Connor; Paul O’Farrell; Aileen O’Gorman; Patrick O’Leary; Brendan O’Loughlin; Mary O’Regan; Deidre O’Reilly; Anne Marie Quarry; Ben Ryan; Gerard Shannon; Brendan Sheehy; Dave Spratt; Ursula Stapleton; Dale Sunderland; Martin Switzer; Breda Walsh; Pauline Waters; Grainne Whelan; Dermot Woods; Rachel Woods

Agencies and Associated Bodies An Garda SíochánaHeadquartersPhoenix ParkDublin 8 Tel: 01 6660000 Website: www.garda.ie

Commissioner: Martin Callinan Deputy Commissioners: Nacie Rice, Noirín O’SullivanChief Administrative Officer: VacantAssistant Commissioners: Jack Nolan; Kieran Kenny; Fintan Fanning; Derek Byrne; William J Keane; John O’Mahoney; Kevin Ludlow; Michael Feehan; John TwomeyChief Medical Officer: Dr. Donal Collins Director of Finance: Michael Culhane

The Garda Síochána is Ireland’s national police force. At the head of the force is the Commissioner, appointed by the government and responsible to the Minister for Justice and Equality.

Courts Service15-24 Phoenix Street North Smithfield Dublin 7 Tel: 01 8886000Website: www.courts.ie

Chairperson: The Hon. Mrs. Justice Susan Denham, Chief Justice of IrelandChief Executive: Brendan Ryan The Courts Service was established as an independent corporate organisation on 9th November 1999. Its functions are to manage the courts and provide support services for the judges, to provide information on the courts system to the public and to manage and maintain courts buildings.

Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal 13 Lower Hatch StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6610604 Fax: 01 6610598

Chairperson: Sinéad Behan BLThis body operates a Scheme of Compensation for Personal Injuries Criminally Inflicted. The Scheme provides for ex-gratia compensation in respect of expenses and losses incurred as a result of personal injuries directly attributable to a crime of violence (or sustained while helping or trying to help prevent a crime/save a human life).

Criminal Law Codification Advisory CommitteeCriminal Law Codification Secretariat UCD School of LawRoebuck CastleUniversity College Dublin Belfield Dublin 4

Department of Justice and Equality(postal address)3rd FloorMontague CourtMontague StreetDublin 2 Tel: 01 4768610 Email: [email protected] Website: www.criminalcode.ie

Chairperson: Prof. Finbarr McAuleyDirector: Ms Valerie FallonThe Criminal Law Codification Advisory Committee, which was established under the Criminal Justice Act 2006, is the statutory body responsible for overseeing the development of a programme for the codification of the criminal law.

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Equality BoardBirchgrove HouseRoscreaCo. TipperaryTel: 0505 24126 Fax: 0505 22388Email: [email protected] Website: www.equality.ie

Chairperson: Dr Angela KerinsThe Equality Authority is an independent body set up under the Employment Equality Act 1998. It was established on 18th October 1999. The Equality Authority replaced the Employment Equality Agency, and has a greatly expanded role and functions. The Employment Equality Act, 1998 and the Equal Status Act, 2000 outlaw discrimination in employment, vocational training, advertising, collective agreements, the provision of goods and services and other opportunities to which the public generally have access on nine distinct grounds.

Equality Tribunal3 Clonmel StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 4774100 Fax: 014774141Email: [email protected] Website: www.equalitytribunal.ie

Director: Niall McCutcheon To contribute to a fairer society through providing a fair, accessible and impartial forum to remedy unlawful discrimination.Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, industrial relation/employee rights institutions including the Labour Court, Labour Relations Commission, Employment Appeals Tribunal, National Employment Rights Authority and the Equality Tribunal will be rationalized into one single agency. At the time of publication, no firm date or definitive details had been given for this merger.

Forensic Science LaboratoryDepartment of Justice Garda Headquarters Phoenix Park Dublin 8 Tel: 01 6662910 Fax: 01 6662929Email: [email protected] Website: www.forensicscience.ie

Director: Dr. Sheila Willis

The Forensic Science Laboratory forms part of the Department of Justice and Equality. It offers a full scientific service to various agencies, mainly An Garda Síochána. Its mission statement is to “assist in the investigation of crime and to serve the administration of Justice in an effective manner by a highly trained and dedicated staff providing scientific analysis and objective expert evidence to international standards”.

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission150 Abbey Street UpperDublin 1 Tel: 01 8716727 LoCall 1890 600 800Fax: 01 8147023Email: [email protected] Website: www.gardaombudsman.ie

Commissioners: Dermot Gallaher, Carmel Foley, Conor Brady.Director of Administration: Anthony DugganDirector of Investigations: Paul Buschini

Under the Garda Síochána Act 2005, the Ombudsman Commission is required and empowered to:• Directly and independently investigate complaints against members of the Garda Síochána; • Investigate any matter, even where no complaint has been made, where it appears that a Garda may have committed an offence or behaved in a way that would justify disciplinary proceedings; • Investigate any practice, policy or procedure of the Garda Síochána with a view to reducing the incidence of related complaints. The mission of the Commission is to provide an independent and effective civilian oversight of policing and to deal with the public’s complaints concerning Gardaí fairly and efficiently so that everyone can have confidence in the complaints system.

Garda Síochána Inspectorate87 St. Stephen’s GreenDublin 2Tel: 01 4086500 Fax: 01 4086599 E-mail: [email protected]: www.gsinsp.ie

Chief Inspector: Kathleen O’Toole This body aims to ensure that the resources available to the Garda Síochána are used so


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An Garda Siochana Disabillity

Anti-Money Laundering Compliance

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Casino Gaming Control Section

Security

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Criminal Law Refrom

Civil Law Refrom

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Immigration

Department of Justice and Equality

Corporate Affairs

Financial Shared

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Ministerial Decisions Unit

Business Delivery

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as to achieve and maintain the highest levels of efficiency and effectiveness in its operation and administration.

Human Rights Commission4th Floor Jervis HouseJervis StreetDublin 1Tel: 01 8589601Fax: 01 8589609Email: [email protected] Website: www.ihrc.ie

President: Dr Maurice ManningChief Executive: Éamonn MacAodhaThe Irish Human Rights Commission (IHRC) was established under statute in 2000, to promote and protect the human rights of everyone in Ireland. The human rights that the IHRC is mandated to promote and protect are the rights, liberties and freedoms guaranteed under the Irish Constitution and under international agreements, treaties and conventions to which Ireland is a party.Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, the Human Rights Commission and the Equality Authority are to be merged to form a new Human Rights and Equality Commission.

Irish Film Classification OfficeBlackhall WalkSmithfieldDublin 7 Tel: 01 7996100Email: [email protected] Website: www.ifco.ie

Director of Film Classification: Ger Connolly (acting)Office Manager: Mary Ita O’SullivanThe IFCO, a statutory body first established in 1923, is responsible for examining and certifying all cinema films and videos/DVDs distributed in Ireland. This makes it illegal to buy, sell or distribute that publication in the Republic of Ireland.

Irish Prison ServiceIDA Business Park Ballinalee Road Longford Co. LongfordTel: 043 3335100Fax: 043 3335371Email: [email protected] Website: www.irishprisons.ie

Director General: Michael DonnellanThe Irish Prison Service is responsible for running the Irish prison system. Its current mission statement is: “to provide safe, secure and humane custody for people who are sent to prison. The Service is committed to managing custodial sentences in a way which encourages and supports prisoners in their endeavouring to live law abiding and purposeful lives as valued members of society.”

Irish Youth Justice ServiceDepartment of Children and Youth Affairs4th Floor43 Mespil RoadDublin 4Tel: 01 4768673 Fax: 01 4768616/4183280 Email: [email protected] National Director: Michelle Shannon This remit of this body includes the development of a unified youth justice policy, the management of all detention facilities for children under the age of 18 years and management of the implementation of certain aspects of the Children Act 2001 (as amended). Its mission statement asserts; “to create a safer society by working in partnership to reduce youth offending through appropriate interventions and linkages into services.”Note: The Irish Youth Justice Service has moved to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. For more information see chapter 17.

Legal Aid Board Quay Street Cahirciveen Co. KerryTel: 066 9471000 LoCall: 1890 615 200Fax: 066 9471035Email: [email protected] Website: www.legalaidboard.ie

Chairperson: VacantCEO: Moling Ryan The Legal Aid Board (LAB) was established in 1979 to deliver a range of civil legal services at low cost to people unable to fund such services from their own resources. The Board’s mission statement is “to provide a professional, efficient, cost-effective and accessible legal aid and advice service.”


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Mental Health (Criminal Law) Review Board51 St. Stephens Green,Dublin 2Tel: 01 6028221 Fax: 01 6028216Email:[email protected]: www.mhclrb.ie

Chairperson: The Honourable Mr Justice Brian McCrackenChief Executive Officer: Greg Heylin The Mental Health (Criminal Law) Review Board was set up under Section 11 of the Criminal Law (Insanity) Act 2006. The Board is a statutory, independent body whose function is to review the detention of patients at the Central Mental Hospital, currently the only designated centre defined by the Act, who have been referred there arising from a decision by the Courts that they are unfit to stand trial or found to be not guilty of an offence by reason of insanity. The Board is also responsible for reviewing the detention of patients who have been transferred to the Central Mental Hospital from within the prison populace and reviewing the detention of military prisoners suffering from mental disorders.

National Disability Authority25 Clyde RoadDublin 4 Tel: 01 6080400 Fax: 01 6609935Email: [email protected] Website: www.nda.ie

Chairperson: Peter McKevittDirector: Siobhán Barron The National Disability Authority (NDA) is an independent statutory agency which was founded in 1999 to protect the rights and entitlements of people with disabilities.

National Property Services Regulatory Authority2nd FloorAbbey BuildingsAbbey RoadNavanCo. Meath Tel: 046 9033800 LoCall 1890 252 712Fax: 046 9033888Email: [email protected]

Website: www.npsra.ie

Chairperson: Tim DaltonChief Executive Designate: Tom LynchThis role of this new authority is to promote high standards in the property sector and implement a new regulatory framework for estate agency, auctioneering, property letting and property management services in Ireland. It will be established on a statutory basis in 2008. Note: According to the programme of public service reform published on November 17 2011, the Property Services Reguation Authority. At the time of publication,

no firm date was given for this merger.

Office of the Data Protection CommissionerCanal House Station Road Portarlington Co. LaoisTel: 057 8684800 (LoCall 1890 252 231) Fax: 057 868 4757Email: [email protected] Website: www.dataprotection.ie

Data Protection Commissioner: Billy HawkesDeputy Data Protection Commissioner: Gary Davis The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner was established under the 1988 Data Protection Act, as amended by The Data Protection Amendment Act 2003. These two Acts set out the general principle that individuals should be in a position to control how data relating to them is used, and the Data Protection Commissioner is responsible for upholding the rights of individuals as set out in the Acts and enforcing the obligations of companies holding data.Note: According to the programme for public service reform, the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner is to be amalgamated with the Office of the Ombudsman. At the time of publication, no firm date was given.

Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions 14-16 Merrion StreetDublin 2 Tel: 01 6789222Fax: 01 6610915Email: [email protected] Website: www.dppireland.ie


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Chief Prosecution Solicitor’s Office:Solicitor’s DivisionOffice of the Director of Public Prosecutions90 North King StreetSmithfieldDublin 7Tel: 01 8588500Fax: 01 8588555

Director of Public Prosecutions: Claire LoftusChief Prosecution Solicitor: Eileen CreedonThe DPP is responsible for enforcing the criminal law in the courts on behalf of the people of Ireland, for directing and supervising public prosecutions in the courts, and for advising the Garda Síochána in relation to cases.

Office of the Inspector of Prisons24 Cecil WalkKenyon StreetNenaghCo. Tipperary Tel: 067 42210Fax: 067 42219Email: [email protected]

Head: Judge Michael ReillyThe Office of the Inspector of Prisons is a statutory, independent office established under the Prisons Act 2007. The key role assigned to the Inspector is to carry out regular inspections of the 14 prisons and places of detention in the state and to present report(s) on each institution visited and an annual report to the Minister for Justice and Equality.

Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner79-83 Lower Mount StreetDublin 2 Tel: 01 6028000Fax: 01 6028122Email: [email protected] Website: www.orac.ie

Refugee Applications Commissioner: David Costello Under the Refugee Act 1996 (as amended) the Commissioner is required to investigate each asylum application lodged within the state and to make recommendations to the Minister of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The Commissioner is also responsible for investigating applications by

refugees to allow family members to enter and reside in the state and for reporting to the Minister on such applications. Note: According to the programme of public service reform, the various Refugee Structures are to be rationalised. At the time of publication, no further information was available.

Parole Board31-35 Bow StreetDublin 7Tel: 01 8720280 Fax: 01 8720316Email: [email protected]

Chairperson: John CostelloThe Parole Board was established on an administrative basis in April 2001. Its principal function is to advise the Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to the administration of long-term prison sentences (sentences of eight years of more). The Board advises the Minister of the prisoner’s progress to date, the degree to which he/she has engaged with the various therapeutic services and how best to proceed with the future administration of the sentence.

Private Security AuthorityDavis StreetTipperary Town Tel: 062 31588 Fax: 06231731Email: [email protected] Website: www.psa.gov.ie

Chairperson: Ronan King Chief Executive Officer: Geraldine Larkin The PSA is an independent statutory body with responsibility for licensing and regulating the private security industry in Ireland. Its Board consists of representatives of the legal profession, private security employers and employees, An Garda Siochána, and relevant government departments and agencies.

Probation Service HaymarketSmithfieldDublin 7Tel: 01 8173600Fax: 01 8722737

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JohnstownNavanCo. Meath Tel: 046 9090900 Fax: 046 9090992Website: www.probation.ie Director: Michael Donnellan The Probation and Welfare Service provides a probation work and related service to the courts and a welfare service to the prisons and places of detention. The work involves preparing pre-sanction assessments for the courts, supervising offenders in the community who are referred by the court and offenders released conditionally from custody, and providing a counselling service to offenders and their families.

Property Registration AuthorityChancery Street Dublin 7 Tel: 01 6707500 LoCall: 1890 333 001Fax: 01 8048037Email: [email protected] (Enquiries will be forwarded to the relevant department) Website: www.prai.ie

Chairperson: John T. Coleman Chief Executive: Catherine Treacy The Property Registration Authority is responsible for both the Land Registry (for registered property) and the Registry of Deeds (unregistered property). The PRA was established in November 2006 under the provisions of the Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006. It’s mission is to promote ad safeguard the legal, societal and economic framework of property ownership in Ireland.”Note: According to the programme of public service reform, the Valuation Office & Ordance Survey Ireland are to be merged into the Property Registration Authority.

Reception & Integration Agency (RIA)PO Box 11487Dublin 2Tel: 01 4183200Fax: 01 4183271Email: [email protected] Website: www.ria.gov.ie

Assistant Secretary: Steve Magner The Reception and Integration Agency was established

in April 2001. It is responsible for:• coordinating the provision of services to both asylum seekers and refugees• coordinating the implementation of integration policy for all refugees and persons granted leave to remain in the State• responding to crisis situations which result in large numbers of refugees arriving in the country within a short period of time• supporting the repatriation, on an ongoing basis for the Department of Social and Family Affairs, of nationals of the ten new EU Member States who fail the Habitual Residency Condition attaching to Social Assistance Payments.Note: According to the programme of public service reform, the various Refugee structures are to be rationalised. At the time of publication, no further information was available.

Refugee Appeals Tribunal6-7 Hanover Street EastDublin 2 Tel: 01 4748400 Locall: 1890 201 458 Fax: 01 4748410Email: [email protected]

Chairperson: John RyanThis body was established in November 2000 as part of Ireland’s obligations under the 1951 Geneva Convention relating to the status of refugees and the Refugee Act 1996. It deals with appeals in respect of recommendations of the Refugee Applications Commissioner on applications for refugee status.Note: According to the programme of public service reform, the various Refugee structures are to be rationalised. At the time of publication, no further information was available.

State Pathology Service c/o Fire Brigade Training UnitMalahide RoadMarinoDublin 3Tel: 01-8534871 Fax: 01 8534874

State Pathologist: Prof. Marie Cassidy The State Pathologist carries out post-mortems at the request of the Garda authorities, attends at scenes of crimes and provides evidence in court and at inquests.

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Chapter 12 Department of Defence

OfficesDepartment of DefenceStation RoadNewbridgeCo. Kildare

(Office of the Minister and Secretary General, Defence Forces Personnel Policy Branch, Legislation Branch, Executive Branch, International Security and Defence Policy Branch, Office of Emergency Planning, Planning and Organisation Branch, Conciliation & Arbitration Branch, Litigation Branch, Contracts Branch and Property Management Branch, Human Resources Branch, Information Systems Branch [Press Office, Information Office, FOI])


• Provision policy advice and support to Minister on defence matters

• Management of legal, regulatory and litigation and lands policy and related matters

• Management of the Department’s human resources and industrial relations

• Coordination of the delivery of security, emergency and community services by the Defence Forces

• Liaison between the Defence Forces and other Government Departments,

public authorities, the EU and public representatives

• Strategic responsibility in relation to emergency planning coordination and oversight

• Financial management and audit functions in connection with the Secretary General’s role as Accounting Officer

• Administration of military pensions • Responsibilities in relation to Civil

Defence and the Irish Red Cross Society

IntroductionThe Department of Defence was established by the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924, which assigns to it “the administration and business of the raising, training, organisation, maintenance, equipment, management, discipline, regulation and control according to law of the military defence forces”. As a Department it contains both civil and military elements.

The Department is also responsible for the administration of military pensions. It has a wide range of responsibilities in relation to Civil Defence and other matters.

The current mission statement of the Department is: “To provide for the military defence of the state, contribute to national and international peace and security and fulfil all other roles assigned by government.”



Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence: Alan Shatter TDAppointed: March 2011Political Party: Fine GaelContact Details for Minister’s Office:

Tel: 045 492101 (Department) 01 6183911 (Dáil) Fax: 045 492007 (Department)Email: [email protected] Secretary: Damien BrennanSpecial Advisor: Thomas Cooney; Jane Lehane

Previous committee memberships: Deputy Shatter was a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children from 2007 and of the joint Oireachtas committee on foreign affairs. Previous party positions: Deputy Shatter has previously been Fine Gael spokesperson law reform in 1982 and again from 1987 to 1988; spokesperson on the environment from 1989 to 1991; on Labour in 1991; on justice from 1992 to 1993; on equality and law reform from 1993 to 1994; on health and children from 1997 to 2000; on justice, law reform and defence from 2000 to 2002; on children from 2007 to 2010 and on justice and law reform from 2010 to the creation of the new Dáil in March 2011. Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Shatter was a member of Dublin County Council from 1991 to 1999. He is also a former president of the Irish Council against Blood Sports. Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Shatter attended The High School, Rathgar, Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. He has practiced as a solicitor and is partner in the firm Gallagher Shatter. Electoral History: Deputy Shatter was first elected to the Dáil in 1981 for the Dublin South Constituency. He was re-elected in 2007 and again in 2011.

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Department of DefenceAras an tSáileRenmoreGalway(Finance Branch, Internal Audit, Management Accounts, Management Information Framework)

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Minister of State for Defence: Paul Kehoe TDAppointed: March 2011Political party: Fine GaelContact details for Minister’s office:

Tel: 01 6194081 (Department) 01 6184473 (Dáil) Fax: 01 6765757Email: [email protected] Secretary: Garry McDonaghEmail: [email protected] Advisor: Mark O’DohertyEmail: [email protected]

Previous committee memberships: Deputy Kehoe was a member of the joint administration committee, a member of the Dáil committee on procedure and privileges and a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on the Constitution.Previous party positions: Deputy Kehoe was spokesperson on communications, marine and natural resources from 2002 until 2004. He was elected Fine Gael Chief Whip in October 2004. He has also served as Assistant Chief Whip for the party.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Kehoe is a former chairperson of Macra na Feirme. Education/Previous occupation: He attended Kildalton Agricultural College, County Kilkenny and was a farmer.Electoral History: Paul Kehoe was first elected to the Dáil in May 2002 to the 29th Dáil for the Wexford constituency and was re-elected in both the 2007 and 2011 elections.

OppositionSpokespersons

Fianna Fáil: Dara Calleary TD (Justice, Equality and Defence)Leinster House Tel: 01 6183331Constituency: Mayo


Sinn Féin: Jonathan O’Brien TD (Justice, Equality and Defence) Leinster House Tel: 01 6184040Constituency: Cork North

CentralEmail: [email protected]



Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and EqualityThis Committee and the select Committees of Dáil and Seanad Eireann of which it is made – has the power to consider:• Matters of policy for which the Minister is officially responsible• Public affairs administered by the Department• Policy issues arising from Value for Money and Policy Reviews conducted or commissioned by the Department • Government policy in respect of bodies under the aegis of the Department• Policy issues concerning bodies which are partly or wholly funded by the State or which are established or appointed by a member of the Governments or the Oireachtas• The general scheme or draft heads of any Bill published by the Minister• Statutory instruments• Strategy statements• Annual reports or accounts• EU draft legislative acts, other EU legislative proposals, non legislative documents published by and EU institution • Such other matters as may be referred to it by the Dáil and/or Seanad from time to time.

Clerk to the CommitteeAlan GuidonEmail: [email protected]: 01 6183899

Chairperson David Stanton TD (Fine Gael)Tel: 01 6183181Email: [email protected]

Deputy Stanton has represented Cork East in the Dáil since 1997 having been re-elected in 2002 and 2007. He is currently the Party’s spokesperson for defence. He was party front bench spokesperson on social and family affairs, and equality from 2004 until 2007. Prior to this he acted as deputy spokesperson on education and science, and spokesperson on labour affairs, consumer rights and trade from 1997 to 2002. From 2007 until 2010, he was party Assistant Chief Whip (Dáil Reform) with special responsibility for disability issues. In July 2010, he was appointed party spokesperson on defence. Prior to entering politics he was a teacher in St Colman’s Community College in Cork. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree and two diplomas from University College Cork and a Masters Degree from the National University of Ireland.

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Deputies:

Dara Calleary Fianna Fáil


Tom Hayes Fine Gael

Seán Kenny Labour

Finian McGrath Independent




Joanna Tuffy Labour

Alan Farrell Fine Gael

Senators:

Ivana Bacik Labour

Paul Bradford Fine Gael

Martin Conway Fine Gael


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The DepartmentSecretary General: Michael Howard Appointed: October 2004Private Secretary: Eilish MurphyContact details for Secretary General’s office: Tel: 045 492117

Previous Positions: Michael Howard was previously Assistant Secretary at the Department of Defence from 1995 to 2004; Principal Officer at the Department of Defence from 1993 to 1995; and Assistant Principal at Department of Defence from 1986 to 1993. He also worked in the Analysis Section at the Department of Finance from 1984 until 1986 and was Inspector of Taxes at the Office of the Revenue Commissioners from 1979 until 1984. Education: Mr Howard attended Terenure College, Dublin; University College, Dublin; Trinity College, Dublin.


(i) Legislation BranchTel: 045 492046/492124

This branch is responsible for co-ordinating the Department’s response to legislative proposals (including draft EU directives) sponsored by other Government Departments that may impact on the policy and work of the Department. It is also responsible for modernisation and simplification of Defence Forces Regulations and for processing amendments and participating in the formulation of policy on other proposals for regulatory change.• Director: Brian Spain- Principal Officer: Jason Kearney- Assistant Principal: Derek McConnon

(ii) Defence Forces Personnel Policy BranchTel: 045 492043/492249The Branch is responsible for administration and correspondence relating to a range of Defence Forces personnel matters.• Assistant Secretary: Ciaran Murphy- Principal Officer: Ann Price- Assistant Principal: Martin Luby

(iii) Conciliation and Arbitration BranchTel: 045 492127/492310/492217/492494

This Branch provides the following services: Setting rates of pay and allowances for members of the Defence Forces; Administration of the Conciliation and Arbitration (C&A) Scheme for commissioned officers and other ranks of the Permanent Defence Force; Setting of terms and conditions for Recruitment into and promotion within the Defence Forces; Interactions with Representative Associations for members of the Permanent Defence Force.• Assistant Secretary: Ciaran Murphy - Principal Officer: Fiona Lafferty- Assistant Principals: Yvonne Morris; Mairead Blackall

(iv) Planning and Organisation BranchTel: 045 492114/492190

This branch is responsible for providing a central strategic planning and organisation function for the Department, mainly by supporting the Management Advisory Committee and the Branches in implementing the Defence and public service modernisation agenda.• Assistant Secretary: Maurice Quinn- Principal Officers: Robert Mooney - Assistant Principals: Stephen Hall; Ciaran Desmond

(v) Corporate Governance and Change Management SectionTel: 01 8042155 / 045 492155

Reporting to Secretary General: • Principal Officer: Gillian Dennehy

(vi) Informations Systems BranchÁras an tSáile, Renmore, Galway; and Station Road, Newbridge, Co KildareTel: 091 743723 / 743734/045 / 492159 / 492157

This branch is responsible for developing, supporting and maintaining all Information and Communications Technology (ICT) systems in


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use in the Department of Defence Civilian Branch. (Military systems are managed by Defence Forces personnel.)• Assistant Secretary: Maurice Quinn- Principal Officer: Aileen Nolan; - Assistant Principals: Michael Byrne (Newbridge); Colm O’Cinnseala (Galway)

(vi) Litigation BranchTel: 045 492141Litigation Branch manages the defence of non-delegated personal injury claims made against the Minister of Defence.• Assistant Secretary: Ciaran Murphy- Principal Officer: Brigitta O’Doherty;- Assistant Principal: Paul Connick

(vii) Contracts BranchTel: 045 492361/492414

The Branch arranges for the procurement of equipment for the Army, Reserve, Air Corps and Naval Service and places contracts for major building and engineering works and services. It also has responsibility for bulk purchases for the Civil Defence Branch and the Management Services Branch in the Department. • Director: Brian Spain- Principal Officer: Jason Kearney- Assistant Principals: John Hanney; Deirdre Creaney

(viii) Property Management BranchTel: 045 492438/492423/492162

This Branch provides the Minister for Defence with policy advice and support in relation to the management of the Department’s property portfolio, in a manner compatible with the operational and training requirements of the Defence Forces.• Director: Brian Spain- Principal Officer: Brendan Coghlan - Assistant Principals: Michael O’Sullivan; Tadhg O’Doherty

(ix) Executive BranchTel: 045 492221/492142/492180

The role of the Executive Branch includes policy, planning and performance management inputs in relation to the following: The provision of aid to the civil power; International peacekeeping operations; Fishery protection and surveillance; Air Corps air

ambulance operations; Ministerial air transport service; Army Equitation School; Ministerial ceremonial events. • Director: Brian Spain- Principal Officer: Cathal Duffy- Assistant Principals: Rose Kearney; Bernie Maguire

(x) International Security and Defence Policy BranchTel: 045 492224/492367/492335

This branch is responsible for: Formulation & Development of Defence Inputs to European Security & Defence Policy (ESDP) including policy on commitments to EU Headline Goal; Management of implementation of Ireland’s Individual Partnership Programme (IPP) for participation in Partnership or Peace (PfP); Working on an ongoing basis with the Department of Foreign Affairs in relation to the above matters.• Assistant Secretary: Ciarán Murphy - Principal Officer: Teresa Sydenham - Assistant Principals: Mary Byrne; Margaret O’Leary; David M. Byrne

(xi) Office of Emergency PlanningTel: 045 492176/492439

Following the events of September 11th 2001, the Government decided on the establishment of an Office of Emergency Planning (OEP) in the Department. This Office is responsible for emergency planning to meet the new threat from international terrorism and from any escalation in international tensions, including coordination of the responses by the various agencies involved. The Office is also responsible for exercising an oversight role in relation to peacetime planning. • Director: Brian Spain- Principal Officer: Fred Bradley - Assistant Principal: Jerry Kelliher

(xii) Department of Defence: Brussels OfficeTel: +32 2 2823380 / +32 2 7072635Fax: +32 2 2304235Email: [email protected]/[email protected]

The Brussels Branch represents Ireland on Defence


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Maurice Quinn

Internal Audit

Planning and Organisation

Branch

Re-Organisation and Changes Management

Section

Informations Systems

Human Resources

Secretary General: Michael Howard

Department of Defence

Finance Branch


Ciaran Murphy

Legislation Branch

Defence Forces

Personnel Policy

Conciliation and

Arbitration

Litigation Branch

International Security and

Defence Policy

Department of Defence:

Brussels Branch

Assistant Secretary: Brian Spain

Contracts

Property Management

Executive Branch

Office of Emergency

Planning

Policy in the European Union and Partnership for Peace• Assistant Secretary: Ciarán Murphy- Principal Officer: David Lawler - Assistant Principals: Barbara Burke; James Ryan

(xiii) Human Resources BranchNewbridge Tel: 045 492187/492194Galway Tel: 091 743704

The HR Branch’s responsibilities include the Training and Development Unit, Partnership process supports, Civilian Employees, Services, Registry and Industrial

Relations Mechanisms. • Assistant Secretary: Maurice Quinn- Principal Officer: Clare Tiernan - Assistant Principals Teresa Hynes; Billy Tuohy; Carol Bourke; Áine Fitzpatrick

(xiv) Finance BranchTel: 091 743700/ 743816/ 743925

The Finance Branch is the largest Branch in the Department. Its mission is “to make timely, efficient and correct payment in respect of all pay, allowances, pensions and gratuities and accounts for supplies and services and to ensure proper accounting for


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all expenditure from the Defence and Army Pension Votes”. The Branch also includes the Internal Audit Section, which is based in Renmore and has a presence in four other locations.• Assistant Secretary: Maurice Quinn- Principal Officers: Michael O’Boyle - Assistant Principals: Tom Barrett; Paddy Blackwell; Kevin Dowling, Gerry Groarke; Breffni O’Rourke; Brendan Fogarty; Kevin O’Connell

Note: The Strategic Management Committee (SMC) is a joint civil-military committee that deals with major policy issues. The SMC members are the Secretary General (Chairperson), the Chief of Staff, the two Deputy Chiefs of Staff and the two Assistant Secretaries of the Department. The General Officer Commanding the Air Corps and the Flag Officer Commanding the Naval Service attend in respect of matters affecting their services.

Current membership of the SMC:Secretary General (Chairperson): Michael Howard Chief of Staff: Lieutenant General; Sean McCannDeputy Chief of Staff: Major General Dave AsheDeputy Chief of Staff: Major General Ralph JamesAssistant Secretary: Ciarán MurphyAssistant Secretary: Maurice Quinn

Agencies and Associated Bodies Civil Defence Board BenamoreRoscreaCo TipperaryTel: 0505 25310Fax: 0505 25344Email: [email protected] Website: www.civildefence.ie

Chairperson: Brian SpainDirector General: Bill SmithAssistant Principals: Roisin Maguire; Seamus Murray; John O’NeillSince the enactment of the Civil Defence Act, 2002, the Civil Defence Board has responsibility for civil defence at national level. The organisation is designed to undertake non–combatant activities and measures to afford defence against or mitigate the effects of an attack on the state or of other hazards associated with war or emergency such as from radioactive fallout, biological or chemical warfare.Note: Following a Government decision in 2011, the Civil Defence Board will be dissolved and responsibility for its functions reverts back to the Department of Defence. The Bill to dissolve the Board is currently being drafted and it is anticipated that it will be published in early 2012.

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Defence ForcesDefence Forces HeadquartersOffice of the Chief of Staff, Deputy Chiefs of Staff, General EnquiriesDepartment of DefenceStation Road,Newbridge,Co. KildareTel: 045 492000Website: www.military.ieEmail: [email protected]

Chief of Staff: Lieutenant General Sean McCann Deputy Chief of Staff (Operations): Major General Ralph JamesDeputy Chief of Staff (Support): Major General Dave Ashe Press Officer: Commandant Neil NolanAssistant Press Officer: Captain Pat O’ConnorTel: 045 492502 / 492503 Email: [email protected]

The Department’s military element consists of Defence Forces Headquarters, which is headed by the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces. The Chief of Staff is directly responsible to the Minister for the overall management of the Defence Forces. Legislative provision has been made to enable the Chief of Staff to delegate duties to the Deputy Chief of Staff (Operations) and Deputy Chief of Staff (Support). The Chief of Staff is the Minister’s principal military adviser.

The Defence Forces are responsible for:• defending the State against armed aggression; this being a contingency, preparations for its implementation depend on an on-going Government assessment of the security and defence environment; • aiding the civil power (in practice assisting, when requested, the Garda Síochána, who have primary responsibility for the protection of the internal security of the State); • participating in multinational peace support, crisis management and humanitarian relief operations in support of the United Nations and under UN mandate, including UN-authorised regional security missions • providing a fishery protection service in accordance with the State’s obligations arising out of its EU membership• carrying out such other duties as may be assigned to them from time to time, e.g. air ambulance service, Ministerial air transport service, search and rescue, assistance in the event of natural or other disasters, assistance in connection with the maintenance of essential services.

1st Southern BrigadeCollins Barracks, CorkTel: 021 4514000

2nd Eastern BrigadeCathal Brugha Barracks, Rathmines, Dublin 6Tel: 01 8046000

4th Western BrigadeCustume Barracks, Athlone, Co WestmeathTel: 090 6421000

Defence Forces Training CentreCurragh Camp, Co KildareTel: 045 445000

Air CorpsCasement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, Co DublinTel: 01 403 7839

Naval ServiceHaulbowline, Cobh, Co CorkTel: 021 4378777

The Defence Forces School of MusicCathal Brugha Barracks, Rathmines, Dublin 6Tel: 01 8046420

The Equitation SchoolMcKee Barracks, Dublin 7Tel: 01 8046140

Ombudsman for the Defence Forces13/15Lower Hatch StreetDublin 2 Tel: 01 6633222Fax: 01 663 3223Email: [email protected] Website: www.odf.ie

Ombudsman for the Defence Forces: Paulyn Marrinan Quinn SC.The function of the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces is to mediate in conflicts between members (and former members) of the Defence Forces and other members (or former members) of the Defence Forces or civil servants in the Department of Defence, as provided for in the Ombudsman (Defence Forces) Act, 2004.

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Chapter 13 Department of Social Protection

The first Department of Social Welfare was established in 1947 and it became fully functional in 1952. On July 12 1997 it changed from the Department of Social Welfare to the Department of Social, Community and Family Affairs. The department then changed its name in 2002 and became the Department of Social and Family Affairs. In May 2010 there were further changes with the department being renamed the Department of Social Protection. The operation of the Rural Social Scheme and the Redundancy and Insolvency Scheme is now also under the responsibility of the Department of Social Protection. The Community Welfare Service of the HSE transferred to the Department of Social Protection from October 2011. From January 2012 responsibility for the employment and community employment services of FÁS will be transferred to this department.

The Department of Social Protection has responsibility for the social welfare system. It formulates social protection policies and administers and manages the delivery of a range of income support and activation services.

The Mission Statement of the Department is to promote active participation in society through the provision of income supports, employment services and other services.

OfficesÁras Mhic Dhiarmada Store Street,Dublin 1Tel: 01 7043000(Office of the Minister, Office of the Secretary General, Press Office, EU/International Policy, Injury Benefit, Medical Care, Illness Benefit, Policy and Planning Unit, Facilities Management Unit, Budget and Finance, Personnel(contact your local Social Welfare Office))

St. Alphonsus Road DundalkCo. Louth Tel: 042 9392600(Accounts branch)

Oisin House, 212-213 Pearse StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 7043000(Corporate Development Unit, , Scope Section (Insurability of Employment), PRSI Refunds, Central Services Unit, Medical Referees Section, Staff Development Unit)

Goldsmith HousePearse Street Dublin 2Tel: 01 7043000(Office of the Deputy Secretary, Business Information Security Unit, Process Improvement Team, Risk Management Support Unit)


• Unemployment• Illness• Maternity• Caring

• Widowhood• Retirement• Old age

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Gandon HouseAmiens Street Dublin 1Tel: 01 7043000(Respite Care Grant, IS Division,Regional Support Office)

Government OfficesCork Road WaterfordTel: 051 356000(Self-Employment Section, Special Collection System for non-PAYE employees, Voluntary Contributions Section, PRSI Special Collection)

Social Welfare Services OfficeSt. Oliver Plunkett RoadLetterkennyCo. Donegal Tel: 1890 404 00/Locall: 1890 690 690 (Child Benefit, Treatment Benefit)

Social Welfare Services OfficeGovernment BuildingsBallinalee RoadLongfordTel: 043 40000(Invalidity Pension, Disability Allowance, Disablement Benefit, Carer’s Allowance/Benefit, Bereavement Grant, Family Income Supplement (FIS))

Social Welfare Services OfficeCollege Road, SligoTel: 1890 500 000 or 071 9169800Tel: 1890 662 244 (Information Services) (Blind Pension, Free Travel, Household Benefits Package, Information Services, Internal Audit, One-Parent Family Payment, Guardian’s Payments, State Pensions, Supplementary Welfare Allowance, Widow’s/Widower’s Pensions, Widowed Parent Grant, Staff Development Unit, Domiciliary Care Allowance)

Social Welfare Services OfficeArdaravan, Inner Relief RoadBuncranna, Co. DonegalTel: 074 9342461(Client Eligibility Services, Adoptive/Maternity/Health and Safety Benefit, Homemakers Section, EU/International Records, Central Records Section)

Government BuildingsTeeling Street, TubbercurryCo. SligoTel: 071 9302020(Tús, Rural Social Scheme, Community Services Programme.)

Shannon LodgeCarrick-on-Shannon, Co. LeitrimTel: 071 9672500 (Client Identity Services, Decisions Advisory Office, Freedom of Information, Activation, Maintenance Recovery Unit, Central Control Section)

Main Telephone Number: 01 7043000 Email: [email protected] protocol: [email protected]: www.welfare.ie


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Minister for Social Protection: Joan Burton TDAppointed: March 2011Political Party: Labour PartyContact Details for Minister’s Office:

Tel: 01 7043890 (Department) 01 6184006 (Dáil) 01 7043630 (Constituency)Fax: 01 7043869 (Department)Email: [email protected] Secretary: Jacinta CrawfordEmail: [email protected] Special Advisor: Edward BrophyEmail [email protected] Advisor: Kathleen BarringtonEmail: [email protected]

Other current positions: Joan Burton is deputy party leader of the Labour Party. She is also an Irish member of the British-Irish Inter Parliamentary Body. Previous ministries: Deputy Burton was Minister of State for Social Welfare from 1992 to 1995. In the 1992-97 Government she was Minister for Development Cooperation and Overseas Aid. She also served as Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs from 1995 to 1997. Previous committee memberships: Deputy Burton was a member of the finance and public service committee in the 30th Dáil.Previous party positions: Deputy Burton was the party spokesperson on finance in the 30th Dáil.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Burton was elected to Fingal County Council in the 1999 local elections. Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Burton worked as a chartered accountant prior to entering politics and trained with Price Waterhouse in Dublin. She also worked as a senior lecturer in the Dublin Institute of Technology.Electoral History: Deputy Burton was first elected to the 27th Dáil following the 1992 general election for the Dublin West constituency. She was re-elected in the elections of 2002, 2007 and 2011.


Fianna Fáil: Barry Cowen TDLeinster House Tel: 01 6183662Constituency: Laois OffalyEmail: [email protected]

Sinn Féin: Aengus Ó Snodaigh TDLeinster House Tel: 01 6184084Constituency: Dublin South CentralEmail: [email protected]

Minister for Social Protection



Joint Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education This Committee has a broad remit, shadowing three departments and will play a key role in providing a meaningful input into legislation and policy and informing debate on the creation and retention of jobs; promoting and supporting enterprise and innovation; developing sustainable social policies and ensuring Ireland’s education system benefits all of society and is recognised internationally as a top class system. The Committee conducts inquiries into areas of current interest within its remit.Among the key policy priorities for the Committee are:• Reform of commercial rates and the high level of business costs• Social Welfare reform• The Structure and management of Irish schools• Standards of teaching and research in

universities and institutes of technology. At the end of an inquiry, the Committee will usually produce a report setting out its findings and making recommendations to the Government.



Deputy English currently serves the Meath West constituency which he has represented since he first was elected in 2002. During his time in the 30th Dáil he was Fine Gael spokesperson for small business and labour affairs and served on several committees including the joint committee on enterprise, trade and innovation, the joint committee on economic

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Deputies:

Ray Butler Fine Gael


Joan Collins United Left

Michael Conaghan Labour

Barry Cowen Fianna Fail

Seán Crowe Sinn Féin

Damien English Fine Gael


Brendan Griffin Fine Gael

John Halligan Independent

Seán Kyne Fine Gael

Anthony Lawlor Fine Gael

John Lyons Labour

Nicky McFadden Fine Gael

Mary Mitchell O’Connor Fine Gael

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin Labour

Aengus Ó Snodaigh Sinn Féin

Willie O’Dea Fianna Fáil

Brendan Ryan Labour

Brendan Smith Fianna Fáil

Peadar Tóibín Sinn Féin

Senators:


John Kelly Labour


Marie Louise O’Donnell Independent

Averil Power Fianna Fáil

Feargal Quinn Independent

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regulatory affairs, the joint committee on finance and the joint committee on European scrutiny. In the 29th Dáil he was secretary of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party (2002 to 2007), deputy spokesperson for arts, sport and tourism (2002 to 2004), deputy spokesperson for justice and community affairs, with special responsibility for drugs, alcohol & crime prevention (2004 to 2007) and was a member of the British-Irish Inter Parliamentary Body. Deputy English has attained a Diploma in Management Accounting through the Certified Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) following his studies at Dublin Institute of Technology & Dublin Business School.

The DepartmentSecretary General: Niamh O’Donoghue Appointed: July 2010Private Secretary: Sarah Niland Contact details for Secretary General’s office: 01 7043896

Previous positions: Niamh O’Donoghue joined the Department of Agriculture as an Executive Officer in 1979. In 1986, she moved to the Department of Health and from there to the Office of the Civil Service and Local Appointments Commissioners in 1995. Ms O’Donoghue joined the Office of the Revenue Commissioners as an Assistant Secretary in 2001, before being appointed Director General of the Department of Social and Family Affairs in December 2007.Education/ Qualifications: BA, MA, MSc (Mgt) from the Institute Public Administration; University of Keele and Trinity College Dublin.

The Department is divided into two major sections, the Aireacht (Ministry) and Social Welfare Services. The Aireacht is responsible for the overall management of the department and for policy advice and formulation, while the Social Welfare Services is responsible for the day-to-day administration and management of social welfare schemes and services.

Social Welfare Services:• Internal Audit: - Professional Accountant: Seamus Quinn• Medical Reviews & Assessments: - Chief Medical Advisor: Dr. Clement Leech- Acting Deputy Chief Medical Advisor: Dr. Joe Cunningham

• Appeals Office- Director & Chief Appeals Officer: Geraldine Gleeson

Deputy Secretary: Anne VaughanAppointed: February 2011Private Secretary: Grainne HeslinContact details for the Deputy Secretary’s office: 01 6732357

(i) Budgets & Finance, Accounts, Corporate Management Services, Facilities Management, Business Intelligence, Legislation • Assistant Secretary: Brian O’ Raghallaigh• Estimates, Admin Budgets, Budget, Financial Management, Annual Output Statement, Means Test Policy, Accountability Policy - Principal Officer: Denis Moynihan• Vote & Social Insurance Fund, Salaries & Payments, Financial System, Treasury, Reconciliation of Payments, Payment Services- Principal Officer: Siobhan Lawlor• Legislation, Risk Management, Business Continuity Planning, Official Languages Act, Business Plans, Partnership Support, Disability Sectoral Plan: Press Office, Planning Secretariat- Principal Officer: Helen McDonald• Statistics, Business Intelligence: - Principal Officer: Paul Morrin• Facilities Management Unit, Archives, Health and Safety, Business Information Security- Principal Officer: Tim Quirke

(ii) Pensions Policy & Administration, Information, Human Resources, Customer Service, Citizens Information Board, MABS• Assistant Secretary: Orlaigh Quinn• State Pension (Contributory) Widows/ Widowers Pension Guardians Pension, Information, Customer Services, MABS, Citizens Information Board- Principal Officer: Fiona Ward


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Dr Clem Leech

Chief Medical Adviser

Deputy CMA

Secretary GeneralNiamh

O’Donoghue

Department of Social Protection

Deputy Secretary

Anne Vaughan

Internal AuditSeamus Quinn

Geraldine Gleeson

Chief Appeals Officer

Deputy CAO

Brian O’Raghallaigh

Assistant Secretary

Statistics, Business

Intelligence:

Vote & Social Insurance

Fund, Salaries & Payments,

Financial System, Treasury,

Reconciliation of Payments,

Payment Services

Estimates, Admin

Budgets, Budget, Financial

Management, Annual Output

Statement, Means

Test Policy, Accountability

Policy

Facilities Management

Unit, Archives, Health and

Safety, Business

Information Security:

Human Resource

Strategy and Resources

Pension, Widows,

Carers Policy, Household

Benefits/ Free Travel Policy, Expenditure

Reviews/ VFM, Policy Committee:

State Pension (non-contributory), One Parent

Families, Household

Benefits, Free Travel

State Pension (Contributory)

Widows/ Widowers Pension

Guardians Pension:

Information, Customer Services, MABS, Citizens

Information Board

Pensions Policy &

Administration, Information,

Human Resources, Customer Service, Citizens

Information Board, MABS

Orlaigh QuinnAssistant Secretary

Niall BarryAssistant Secretary

Client Systems

Working Age ICT Systems

Architecture and Platform

Support

ICT Project Planning,

DRIM

Client Identity Services Standard

Authentication Framework

Environment, DAO/FOI

General Register Office

IS Operational Services

Maintenance Recovery,

Central Overpayments

& Debt Management, Fraud Control,

Central Prosecutions:

Child Income Support

Policy, Social Inclusion Division

Child Benefit, Maternity Schemes, Treatment

Midlands Region:

SIU at National Level:

Border Region:

Western Region

Kathleen Stack

Assistant Secretary

Helen FaughnanAssistant Secretary

Operations Policy (RSO)

Dublin South Region (+ Kildare & Wicklow)

Dublin North Region (and

Meath)

South East Region

South Region

Supplementary Welfare

Allowance (Policy &

Operations)

Transformation Project

Community Welfare Service

Support Team`


– Industrial Relations

Disability Policy,

Disability Activation Projectt

Transformation Project – FAS

Carers Schemes,

Family Income Supplement, Long-Term

Illness:

Short-Term Illness Medical

Review & Assessment

Administration:

John McKeonAssistant Secretary

Alice O’FlynnAssistant Secretary

Working Age Policy/ ESS, Activation:

Lone Parents Policy,

Profiling, Cases

Management, Civil

Partnership: EU Co-

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North-South Co-operation:

Rural Social Scheme and Community

Support Programme:

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Redundancy and

Insolvency

FAS Liaison

Human Resource Staff Development

Legislation, Risk

Management, Business Continuity Planning,

Official Languages

Act, Business Plans,

Partnership Support, Disability

Sectoral Plan: Press Office,

Planning Secretariat


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• State Pension (non-contributory), One Parent Families, Household Benefits, Free Travel: - Principal Officer: Miriam Finnegan• Pension, Widows, Carers Policy, Household Benefits/ Free Travel Policy, Expenditure Reviews/ VFM, Policy Committee: - Principal Officer: Patricia Murphy• Human Resource Strategy and Resources- Principal Officer: Celine Moore• Human Resource Staff Development- Principal Officer: Cathy Barron

(iii) Working Age Policy, Employment Support Activation, Lone Parent Policy, Cases Management, EU International, Community Schemes, FÁS Liaison, PRSI, Scope, Redundancy and Insolvency.• Assistant Secretary: Alice O’Flynn• Working Age Policy, ESS, Activation - Principal Officer: Dave Dillon• Lone Parents Policy, Profiling, Cases Management, Civil Partnership - Principal Officer: Marie O’Neill• EU Co-ordinator, International Relations, North-South Co-operation - Principal Officer: Anne McManus• Rural Social Scheme and Community Support Programme- Principal Officer: TJ Fleming• PRSI, Scope, Redundancy and Insolvency- Principal Officer: Mary Kennedy• FAS Liaison- Principal Officer: Padraig O’Conaill

(iv) All Regions, Child Benefit, Treatment Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance, Maternity Schemes, Child Income Support Policy, Fraud Control• Assistant Secretary: Kathleen Stack• Western Region - Principal Officers: Barry Kennedy & John Shannon• Border Region - Principal Officers: Don Watts & Finbar

Murphy• SIU at National Level - Principal Officer: Phil Cox • Midlands Region:- Principal Officers: Phil Cox & Finbar Murphy• Child Benefit, Maternity Schemes, Treatment Benefit, Domiciliary Care Allowance - Principal Officer: Tony Kieran• Child Income Support Policy, Social Inclusion Division- Principal Officer: John Bohan• Maintenance Recovery, Central Overpayments & Debt Management, Fraud Control, Central Prosecutions - Principal Officer: Deirdre Shanley

(v) Information Systems, General Register Office, Client Eligibility Services, EESI Project, Client Identity Services, DAO/FOI, Business Modernisation (SDM, DRIM)• Assistant Secretary: Niall Barry• IS Operational Services: - Principal Officer: Liam Walsh• Client Systems Principal Officer: Kevin Coady• Working Age ICT Systems - Principal Officer: Victor Galvin• Architecture and Platform Support: - Principal Officer: Sean Fay• General Register Office - Principal Officer: Kieran Feely• Client Identity Services Standard Authentication Framework Environment, DAO/FOI - Principal Officer: Richard Shine• ICT Project Planning, DRIM - Principal Officer: Daragh O’Connor• Business Architect, Service Delivery Modernisation - Principal Officer: Teresa Leonard


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(vi) Illness Scheme Operations, Carers and FIS Operations, Disability Policy, Organisation Transformation Project • Assistant Secretary: John McKeon• Short-Term Illness Medical Review & Assessment Administration - Principal Officer: Brendan Friel• Carers Schemes, Family Income Supplement, Long-Term Illness - Principal Officer: Catherine Kellaghan• Disability Policy, Disability Activation Project - Principal Officer: Joan McMahon• Transformation Project Community Welfare Service Support Team `- Principal Officer: Lucy Fallon Byrne• Transformation Project – FAS- Principal Officer: Liam Treacy• Transformation Project – Industrial Relations- Principal Officer: Anne Tynan

(vii) Assistant Secretary: Helen Faughnan• Operations Policy (RSO)- Principal Officers: Bernard Tonge; Rita Tighe• Dublin South Region (+ Kildare & Wicklow)- Principal Officers: Mary O’Sullivan and Paula Kelly• Dublin North Region (and Meath)- Principal Officers: Paul Carroll; James Sadlier• South East Region- Principal Officers: Philip O’Donohue; Greg Crowley• South Region- Principal Officers: Neil Kelly; Greg Crowley• Supplementary Welfare Allowance (Policy & Operations)- Principal Officer: Kieran O’Dwyer

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Citizens Information BoardGround FloorGeorge’s Quay House43 Townsend StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6059000 LoCall: 1890 777 121Fax: 01 6059099Email: [email protected] /[email protected] Website: www.citizensinformationboard.ie

Chairperson: Slyda LangfordChief Executive: Tony McQuinnCitizens Information Board is the statutory body responsible for supporting the provision of information, advice and advocacy on social and civil services to the public. Note: Under Budget 2009, the Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) will be assigned to the Citizens Information Board (CIB).

Pensions BoardVerschoyle House28/30 Lower Mount StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6131900 LoCall: 1890 656 565Fax: 01 6318602Email: [email protected] Website: www.pensionsboard.ie

Chairperson: Jane WilliamsChief Executive: Brendan KennedyEstablished by the Pensions Act, 1990, the Pensions Board is responsible for the regulation of occupational pension schemes and Personal Retirement Savings Accounts in Ireland, in addition to advising the Minister for Social Protection on pension matters generally. Note: According to the programme for public service reform, published on November 17, the regulatory functions of the Pensions Board are to be integrated with the Financial Regulator. At the time of publication, no firm date was given.]

Social Welfare Appeals OfficeD’Olier HouseD’Olier StreetDublin 2Tel: 1890 747 434Fax: 01 6718391Email: [email protected] Website: www.socialwelfareappeals.ie

Director and Chief Appeals Officer: Geraldine GleesonDeputy Chief Appeals Officer: Dan KavanaghThe Social Welfare Appeals Office is an agency which operates independently of the department and is responsible for dealing with appeals against decisions of the Deciding Officer regarding entitlements to social welfare.

Pensions Ombudsman 36 Upper Mount StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6471650Fax: 01 6769577Email: [email protected] Website: www.pensionsombudsman.ie

Ombudsman: Paul KennyDirector: John O’TooleThe Pensions Ombudsman investigates complaints of financial loss due to maladministration and disputes of fact or law in relation to occupational pension schemes and Personal Retirement Savings Accounts (PRSAs). A statutory officer, he is completely independent in the performance of these functions and acts as an impartial adjudicator.Note: According to the programme for public service reform, published on November 17, the Pensions Ombudsman will be merged with the Financial Services Ombudsman. At the time of publication, no firm date was given for this merger.,

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Chapter 14 Department of Agriculture, Marine and Food

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine was established on March 9 2011. It retains all of the former functions of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and has additional responsibility for sea fisheries, aquaculture, marine research, marine engineering, pier and harbour development (for all piers and harbours other than those commercial and island harbours which are under the responsibility of the Department of Transport and the Department of Environment, Community, and Local Government respectively) and aquaculture.

The department retains its former functions of providing advisory services for the formulation of Governmental policies pertaining to the agriculture and food sectors, as well as making representations on behalf of the sectors at EU and global levels. The department has responsibility for the regulation of the agricultural and food industries through national and EU

legislation, as well as for monitoring animal and plant welfare. It will also continue to monitor the direction of state bodies engaged in research, training, advice, market development/promotion and industrial development.

The department’s current mission statement is “to lead the development of a competitive sustainable and consumer focused agri-food sector and a vibrant rural economy and society.”

Introduction

Core areas of responsibility• Agriculture policy• Schemes in support of sectoral development• Food safety• Industrial regulation• Animal, plant health and welfare

• State bodies in support of agriculture and food• Sectoral support services• Sea fisheries and aquaculture • Marine research and engineering • Forestry


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OfficesOffice of the Minister, Ministers of State and Secretary GeneralAgriculture House Kildare StreetDublin 2

Cavan OfficeGovernment Buildings Farnham Street Co.Cavan

Kildare OfficesBackweston Campus Administration BuildingYoung’s Cross Celbridge Co. Kildare

Naas Regional OfficePopular House Naas Co. Kildare

Wexford OfficeJohnstown Castle Estate Co. Wexford

Cork Office (Fisheries Only)Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & FoodClogheen ClonakiltyCo. Cork

Main Telephone Number: 01 6072000 LoCall: 1890 200 510


Email Protocol: [email protected]

Website: www.agriculture.gov.ie

Minister for Agriculture, Marine and Food: Simon Coveney TD Appointed: March 2011Political party: Fine GaelContact details for the Minister’s office:

Tel: 01 6072000 (Department); 01 6763925 (Department); 01 6183753 (Dáil)Fax: 01 6611013Email: [email protected];[email protected] Secretary: Kevin Joe GalliganSpecial Advisors:, Áine Kilroy; Caitriona Fitzpatrick Press Advisor: Martina Kearney

Previous committee positions: Deputy Coveney was a member of the committees on family, social and community affairs, education and science, communications and marine and natural resources as well as the strategic management committee. More recently, he was a member of the joint Oireachtas committees on communications, energy and natural resources and climate change and energy security during the 30th Dáil until July and October 2010 respectively. Previous party positions: He was Fine Gael parliamentary party secretary, Fine Gael spokesperson on communications, energy and natural resources and spokesperson on drugs and youth issues. He was also assistant Chief Whip, secretary of Fine Gael and spokesperson for communications, marine and natural resources.Previous political roles: Deputy Conveney was a member of Cork County Council from 1999 to 2003. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 for Fine Gael as a member of the EPP-ED group. He was co-ordinator for Human Rights within this group and was a member of European Parliament committees on foreign affairs, the internal market and consumer protection and fisheries, in addition to being a member of delegations with the United States and Iran. He was a member of the Southern Health Board and Cork County Council and he is a former chairperson of the Joint City and Country Committee and member of the Coastal Management Committee.Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Coveney attended University College Cork and Gurteen Agricultural College, County Tipperary. He also holds a B.Sc. in Agriculture and Land Management from Royal Agriculture College, GloucestershireElectoral history: Deputy Coveney was first elected to the Dáil in a by-election for Cork South Central in 1998 following the death of his father Hugh Coveney. He was re-elected in 2002, 2007 and 2011.

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Minister of StateMinister of State: Shane McEntee TD Special Responsibility: Forestry, Horticulture the Organic Sector and the Greyhound IndustryAppointed: March 2011

Political party: Fine Gael Contact details for the Minister’s office: Tel: 01 6184447 (Dáil); 041 9882727(Constituency)Fax: 041 9882477(Constituency)Email: [email protected];[email protected]

Previous party positions: Deputy McEntee was deputy spokesperson on agriculture, fisheries and food with special responsibility for food and fisheries and also deputy spokesperson on transport with special responsibility for road safety. Education/Previous occupation: Deputy McEntee worked as a farmer and agricultural sales representative prior to taking his seat in the Dáil.Electoral History: Deputy McEntee was first elected to the Dáil in 2005 for the Meath-East constituency following a by-election in that constituency. He was subsequently re-elected in 2007 and again in February 2011.


Fianna Fáil: Michael Moynihan TD (Agriculture and Food)Leinster House Tel: 01 6183595Constituency: Cork North WestEmail: [email protected]

Fianna Fáil: John Browne TD (Marine and Fisheries)Leinster House Tel: 01 6183094Constituency: WexfordEmail: [email protected]

Fianna Fáil: Séamus Kirk TD (Horticulture and Rural Affairs)Leinster House Tel: 01 6183362Constituency: LouthEmail: [email protected]

Sinn Féin: Michael Colreavy TDLeinster House Tel: 01 6183745Constituency: Sligo-North LeitrimEmail: [email protected]



Joint Committee on Communications, Natural Resources and Agriculture According to its terms of reference, the Joint Committee may consider the following matters in respect of the relevant Department or Departments and associated public bodies, and report thereon to both Houses of the Oireachtas:• matters of policy for which the Minister is officially responsible,• public affairs administered by the Department,• policy issues arising from Value for Money and Policy Reviews conducted or commissioned by the Department,• Government policy in respect of bodies under the aegis of the Department,• policy issues concerning bodies which are partly or wholly funded by the State or which are established or appointed by a member of the Government or the Oireachtas,• the general scheme or draft heads of any Bill published by the Minister,• statutory instruments, including those laid or laid in draft before either House or both Houses and those made under the European Communities Acts 1972 to 2009, • strategy statements laid before either or both Houses of the Oireachtas pursuant to the Public Service Management Act 1997,

• annual reports or annual reports and accounts, required by law, and laid before either or both Houses of the Oireachtas, of the Department or relevant bodies and the overall operational results, statements of strategy and corporate plans of such bodies, and(such other matters as may be referred to it by the Dáil and/or Seanad from time to time.

Clerk to the CommitteeJosie BriodyEmail: [email protected]: 01 6183717

ChairpersonAndrew Doyle TD(Fine Gael)Tel: 01 6183611Email: [email protected]

Mr Doyle became a member of Wicklow County Council in 1999 when he was elected to represent Wicklow East. He remained a member until 2006 having served as Chairman from 2005 to 2006. Also a member of the Joint Administration Committee, Deputy Doyle was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 2007 where he was appointed Deputy Spokesperson on Agriculture with special responsibility for food and Horticulture by Enda Kenny TD.

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Deputies:

Tom Barry Fine Gael


Pat Deering Fine Gael

Robert Dowds Labour


Martin Ferris Sinn Féin

Noel Harrington Fine Gael

Martin Heydon Fine Gael




Michael Moynihan Fianna Fáil

Éamon Ó Cuív Fianna Fail

John O’Mahony Fine Gael


Senators:

Michael Comiskey Fine Gael

Paschal Mooney Fianna Fáil

Pat O’Neill Fine Gael

Mary Ann O’Brien Indpendent

Brian Ó Domhnaill Fianna Fáil

John Whelan Labour

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The DepartmentSecretary General: Tom Moran Appointed: January 2005Private Secretary: Siobhan DowlingContact details for Secretary General’s office: 01 6072184

Previous positions: Tom Moran joined the Department of Agriculture and Food in 1980 as an administrative officer and served in a variety of posts in that department. He served in the Irish Embassy in Paris as the Agriculture Attaché to France and to OECD 1989-1992 (seconded to Department of Foreign Affairs for this period). He was the Principal Officer of the Milk Policy Division from 1992 to 1997 (Responsible for EU market management and supports, trade and milk quotas and public health measures in the milk sector) and Assistant Secretary General from 1997 to 2004. He had responsibility for policy in the Livestock Products Area including dairy sector, beef, sheepmeat, pigmeat and poultry. Education: St Josephs CBS, Fairview; University College, Dublin; Institute of Public Administration, Dublin. Qualifications: MA. HDipEd.


(i) Disadvantaged Areas and Suckler Cow Scheme, Direct Payment Integrated Controls, Single Payment Scheme, Forest Service, On Farm Investments, Subsidies and Storage, Export Refunds, Beef Controls• Assistant Secretary: Kevin Smyth• Single Payment Unit/Single Payment Entitlement Unit/Area Aid/Disadvantaged Area Scheme/Special Beef Premium and E-Government Services - Principal Officers: Paud Evans; Andy McGarrigle; - Assistant Principals: Noel Dinneny; Mary Lawlor; Pat O’Hara; Larry Cashman; Carmel Delahunt; Bernie Brennan; Ursula McMahon• Integrated Controls - Senior Inspector: Al Grogan

- Agricultural Inspectors: Tony Corcoran; Mairead Fanning; Michael Moloney; John O’Rourke; Fergus O’Sullivan; Con N O’Brien, John Sheehan; Michael Sharkey.• Forest Service Administration - Principal Officer: Bridgeena Nolan - Assistant Principals: Dympna Furlong; Noel Heffernan; Gerry Cassidy; Michael McNamara• Forest Service Inspectorate- Senior Inspector: Seamus Dunne• Forest Inventory and Environment - Divisional Inspectors: Tom McDonald (Grade1); Pat Farrington (Grade 2); John J. Redmond; Mark Twomey; Emmet Byrnes; Orla Fahy; Vacancy (Grade 3).• Forest Protection and Forest Reproduction Material - Divisional Inspectors: Gerard Cahalane (Grade 1); Cormac O’Flynn; Cathal Ryan; Dermot O’Leary (Grade 3) • Forest Schemes - Divisional Inspectors: Fergus Moore; Noel Foley (Grade 1)• Forest Sector Development- Senior Inspector: Dr. Eugene Hendrick• On Farm Investments, Subsidies and Storage - Principal Officer: Gordon Conroy- Assistant Principals: Dermot McCarthy; Mary McMahon• Export Refunds - Principal Officer: Gordon Conroy - Assistant Principal: Karl Coggins• Beef Controls - Senior Superintending Veterinary Inspector: Vacant- Veterinary Inspector: Michael O’Shea

(ii) Animal Health and Welfare, ERAD (Administration), District Veterinary Operations, National Beef Assurance Scheme, Personnel, Accommodation/Procurement, ISO, Health and Safety, Management Services, Corporate Affairs/FOI, State Bodies, Food Safety, North/South Co-operation• Assistant Secretary: Philip Carroll• Animal Health and Welfare - Principal Officer: Stephen Fitzpatrick- Assistant Principal: Morina Carr; Noel Holleran• Animal Health and Welfare - Principal Officer: Dermot Murphy- Assistant Principals: Mary Butler; Bríd

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Farrell; Kathleen O’Connor; Tom Ryan• ERAD (Bovine TB and Brucellosis)/ Veterinary Medicines - Principal Officer: Richard Healy- Assistant Principals: Roseanne Green; Bridget Hickey; Philip Kirwan; Paul Vickers• National Beef Assurance Scheme - Principal Officer: Martin Farrell- Assistant Principals: Ursula Forde; Ann Keating; Pat Keena• Personnel, Training and Development - Principal Officer: Bert O’Reilly- Assistant Principals: Norma Behan; Patrick Clarkin; Nora Lynch; Michael Mackessy; Fintan O’Brien; Kay Ryan; Maria Talbot • Accommodation; Archives; Utilities and Supplies; ISO Projects Management; Health and Safety - Principal Officer: Danny Carroll- Assistant Principals: Gay Curley; Sean Heneghan; Denis Mehigan; Damian Ward• Management Services- Principal Officer: Breffini Carpenter - Assistant Principals: Sean Bell; Eamon Mansfield; Pauline Mulvey; Angela Robinson; Mark Winkelmann- Agricultural Inspectors: David Buckley; Tim Drea • Corporate Affairs/FOI (incorporating press office, Irish Language Unit, Customer Service Unit Co-ordination, Enquiry Unit and Library), State Bodies, Food Safety North/South Co-operation; Animal Product Import; Equine Measures- Principal Officer: Paul Dillon- Assistant Principals: Mary Curley; Ray Wiliamson; Mel McDonagh; John Byrne; Karl Kelly

(iii) Meat and Milk Policy, Milk and Meat Hygiene and Animal By-Products , Food Industry Development• Assistant Secretary: Martin Heraghty• Meat and Milk Policy: - Principal Officer: Brendan Gleeson- Assistant Principals: Mary McCarthy; Tom Corkery; John Downey; Brendan O’Connor• Meat Hygiene and Animal By-Products: - Principal Officer: Tom Loftus - Assistant Principals: Aidan Dillon; Mairead Broderick• Food Industry Development:- Principal Officer: Marian Byrne- Assistant Principals: Maeve Lynch; Sharon Murphy

(iv) EU and International Affairs; Economics and Planning; Rural Development; Climate Change and Bioenergy• Assistant Secretary: Aidan O’Driscoll• EU/Trade- Principal Officer: Bríd Cannon- Assistant Principals: Gráinne Mulligan; Jackie O’Reilly• Economics and Planning: - Chief Economist: Ann Derwin- Assistant Principals: Lynn Broderick; Colm Hayes; Sinead McPhilips; Colm O’Cribin• Rural Development: - Principal Officer: Patricia Cannon- Assistant Principal: Liam Walsh• Climate Change and Bioenergy: - Principal Officer: Paul McKiernan- Assistant Principals: Miriam Cadwell; Eddie Forde- Agriculture Inspector: Liam Kinsella

(v) Accounts, Finance, Internal Audit, Agricultural Structures, Agricultural Environment and Structures, Legal/ Land Services, Agriculture Appeals Office• Assistant Secretary: Anthony Burke• Accounts: - Principal Officer: Geraldine Mullen- Assistant Principals: Joe Grimes; Noel McHugh; Colm McKiernan; Charles O’Reilly • Internal Audit Unit: - Director of Internal Audit: Tom Medlycott - Assistant Principals: Declan Galvin; Paula Lynch; Mick Quirke• Finance: - Principal Officer: Heber McMahon- Accountant: Patricia Heeney - Assistant Principals: Jim Caddle; Marie Hoban; Mícheál Ó Raghallaigh; Peter Stanley• Agricultural Structures: - Principal Officer: Gordon Conroy- Assistant Principals: Joan Furlong; Patricia Kelly• Agricultural Environmental and Structures: - Senior Inspector: Liam Fahey - Agriculture Inspectors: Liam Brady; James Caffrey; John Flannery; Oliver Molloy; Jack Nolan; Eddie O’Doherty• Legal Services (incorporating Lands;


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Collection and Records sections) - Head of Legal Services Division and Principal Officer: Oliver Randall Plunkett- Solicitors: Jimmy Winston; Graham Lennox- Barristers: John Kinsella BL; Conor O’Mahony BL- Assistant Principals: Ann Kieran; Fran McKeon; Seamus O’Brien; Jane Dempsey, Claire Kennedy• Agriculture Licences Appeals Board - Senior Inspector: John M Murphy- Agricultural Inspectors: Nicola Hobson; Pat Kelly; Rosita Neilan- Assistant Principal: Jim Byrne; Sean O’Donnacha; Lynda O’Regan

(vi) Information and Communication Technology • Assistant Secretary: Michael Bunyan• Animal Health and Traceability Systems- Principal Officer: Vacant- Assistant Principals: Michael Farrell; Alan King; Darren Murray; Gerry Meleady • IT Infrastructure and Operations - Principal Officer: Robert Butler- Assistant Principals: Suzanne McGarry; Tony McGarry; Declan O’Riordan; Joe Birthistle • Customer Administration, Financials and Fisheries - Principal Officer: Joe Hanly- Assistant Principals: Ben Duffy; Eamonn Minogue; Aidan O’Brien; Sean Murphy• Direct Payments Scheme - Principal Officer: Seán Keevey- Assistant Principals: John Deasy; Gregory Hall; Anthony F Hamilton; Niamh Toomey; John Ryan; Sean Connolly; Tom Forristal• IT Financials; Forestry Systems - Principal Officer: Vacancy - Assistant Principals: Sean Murphy; John Ryan

(vii) Fisheries• Assistant Secretary: Dr. Cecil Beamish• Seafood Policy & Development - Principal Officer: Josephine Kelly- Assistant Principals: Deirdre Kelleher; Kevin Moriarty; Conor O’Suilleabhain• Sea Fisheries Administration and Harbour Staff (excluding Industrial) - Principal Officer: Paschal Hayes - Assistant Principals: Kevin Hodnett; Máirín Ní Dhuinn

• Aquaculture and Foreshore Management - Principal Officer: John Quinlan - Assistant Principals: Kieran Burns; Pat Corcoran; Dave O’Donoghue; Batt Whelton• Engineering - Chief Engineer: Dr Gerard Farrell- Assistant Chief Engineers: John McHale - Engineers (Grade 1) BJ Campbell; James Casey; Gerard Egan; Cormac O’Donoghue; Anthony O’Sullivan; PJ Shaw; Allen Williams; - Engineers (Grade 2) Raphael Crowley; Edwina Forde; Noel Ó Murchú; Paul O’Sullivan

(viii) Research, Food and Codex Co-ordination Division, Specialist Farm Services Environment and Evaluation Division, Crop Policy, Production and Safety Division (Feeding stuffs, Fertiliser, Grain, Seed Certification) Crop Variety Testing, Horticulture and Plant Health, Pesticides Residues and Registration) • Chief Inspector: David Beehan• Deputy Chief Inspector: Dermot Ryan• Research, Food and Codex Coordination Division - Senior Inspector: Richard Howell- Agricultural Inspectors: Pamela Byrne; Dale Crammon; Clodagh Byrne - Assistant Principal: Carol Howard• Nitrates; Biodiversity and Engineering; - Senior Inspector Agricultural Inspectors; Bill Callanan- Agricultural Inspectors: Robert Leonard; Oliver McEvoy; Thomas Quinlivan; Patricia Torpey- Assistant Principal: Tony Reid• Crop Policy, Production and Safety - Principal Officer: Kevin Cassidy - Assistant Principals: Aidan Duane (Agriculture House); Roisin O’Connell; Paul Vickers• Feedingstuffs, Fertiliser, Grain and Poultry- Senior Inspector: Liam Hyde - Agricultural Inspectors: John Canny; Colm O’Bric; Gerry Lohan • Crops Evaluation and Certification - Senior Inspector: Donal Coleman


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Single Payment Unit/Single Payment

Entitlement Unit/Area Aid/Disadvantaged Area Scheme/Special Beef Premium and E-Government

Services

EU/Trade Accounts Information and

Communication Technology

Economics and Planning

Finance

Integrated Controls Internal Audit

Unit

Agricultural Structures

Animal Health and Welfare

ERAD (Bovine TB and

Brucellosis)/ Veterinary Medicines

National Beef Assurance Scheme

Secretary General

Tom Moran

Meat and Milk Policy

Meat Hygiene and Animal By-

Productss

Food Industry Development

Food Safety -North/South Co-operation

Seafood Policy & Development

The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Director of Laboratory Services:

Dan O’Sullivan

Rural Development Personnel,

Training and Development

Research, Food and Codex

Co-ordination Division

Nitrates, Biodiversity and

Engineering

Crop Policy, Production and

Safety

Feedingstuffs, Fertiliser, Grain

and Poultry

Laboratory Services

Administrative Unit

Meat Policy - Meat Hygiene

and Animal By-Products

Accommodation;

Archives; Utilities

and Supplies;

ISO Projects

Management;

Health and

Safety


Kevin Smyth

Assistant Secretary: Anthony

Burke


Martin Heraghty


Aidan O’Driscoll


Philip Carroll


David Beehan


Michael Bunyan

Assistant Secretary: Dr. Cecil Beamish

Management Services

Crops Evaluation and

Certification

Plant Health and Horticulture

- Agricultural Inspectors: Gerry Doherty; Daniel Murphy; Seán Gaule; Barry O’Reilly; John Claffery • Plant Health and Horticulture: - Senior Inspector: Gabriel Roe- Agricultural Inspectors: Matthew Clarke; Noreen Cunningham; Barry Delany; Edward Massey; Sheila Nolan• Pesticides Registration and Controls: - Senior Inspector: Dermot Sheridan- Agricultural Inspectors: John Acton; Thomasina Barron; Anne-Marie Dillon; John Harrison; Patricia Hickey; Gordon Rennick; David McGilloway; Tom

O’Flaherty; Aidan Moody • Livestock Breeding, Production and Safety: - Senior Inspector: Gerry Greally - Agricultural Inspectors: Jim Garvey; James Choiseul; John Joe Byrne- Assistant Principals: Emer McGeough; Fintan Deere

Forest Service Administration

Forest Service Inspectorate

Forest Inventory and Environment

Forest Protection and Forest

Reproduction Material

Forest Schemes

Forest Sector Development

Export Refunds

Beef Controls

Climate Change and Bioenergy

Corporate Affairs/FOI

(incorporating Press

Office, Irish Language

Unit, Customer Service

Unit Co-ordination,

Enquiry Unit and

Library), State Bodies,

Food Safety North/

South Co-operation;

Animal Product Import;

Equine Measures

Agricultural Environmental and Structures

Legal Services (incorporating

Lands; Collection

and Records sections)

Agriculture Licences

Appeals Board

Animal Health and Traceability

Systems

Customer Administration, Financials and

Fisheries

Direct Payments Scheme

IT Financials; Forestry Systems

Sea Fisheries Administration and Harbour

Staff (excluding Industrial)

Aquaculture and Foreshore Management

Engineering

Pesticides Registration and

Controls

Livestock Breeding,

Production and Safety

Veterinary and Public

Health Residue Laboratory

Bacteriology and Parasitology Laboratory

Division

Virology Laboratory

Division

Dairy Science Laboratory

Division

Pesticide, Plant Health & Seed Testing Laboratory

Division

Pathology Laboratory

Division

Regional Veterinary

Laboratories Division

Chief Veterinary

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(ix) Inspectorate Service (Veterinary) • Chief Veterinary Officer: Vacancy• Deputy Chief Veterinary Officers: Martin Blake; Michael Sheridan; Martin O’Sullivan• Senior Superintending Veterinary Officers: Paula Barry-Walsh; Patrick Brangan; Patrick Flanagan; Margaret Good; John Griffin; William McAteer; David Nolan; Garrett O’Hagan• Superintending Veterinary Officers: Cecil Alexander; Patrick Connolly; Marc Cronin; Robert Doyle; Anthony Duignan; Alma Flack; Brian Flaherty; Sally Gaynor; Andrew Guthrie; David Lynch; Peter Maher; John Melville; Peter Mullowney; Joe O’Flaherty; James O’Keefe; Niall Ó Nualláin; Michael Sheahan; Hazel Sheridan; Eddie Teehan; Kilian Unger

(x) Director of Laboratory Services: Dan O’Sullivan- Head of Veterinary Laboratories: Donal Sammin- Head of Agricultural Laboratories: Vacancy- Laboratory Services Administrative Unit:• Head of Unit: Paul Lynch - Veterinary and Public Health Residue Laboratory: • Head of Division : Vacancy- Bacteriology and Parasitology Laboratory Division : • Head of Division: John Egan- Virology Laboratory Division: • Head of Division: Pat Lenihan- Dairy Science Laboratory Division: • Head of Division: Nicholas Finnerty. - Pesticide, Plant Health & Seed Testing Laboratory Division: • Head of Division: Michael Hickey- Pathology Laboratory Division: • Head of Division: Paul Collery. - Regional Veterinary Laboratories Division:• Head of Division: Michael Casey.

Agencies and Associated BodiesAquaculture Licences Appeals BoardKilminchy Court Portlaoise Co. LaoisTel: 057 8667857

Email: [email protected] Website: www.alab.ie

Chairperson: Mark O’Connell Secretary: Anne Marie MahonThe Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board was established on 17 June 1998 under Section 22 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1997. As provided for under Section 23 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1997, the Board consists of a Chairperson and six other members who are engaged on a part-time basis. Its function is to provide an independent authority for the determination of appeals against decisions of the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources on aquaculture licence applications.

Bord BiaClanwilliam CourtLower Mount StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6685155 Fax: 01 6687521Email: [email protected] Website: www.bordbia.ie

Chairperson: Michael CareyChief Executive: Aidan Cotter Bord Bia (the Irish Food Board) was established in 1994 by legislation bringing together the former Coras Beostoic agus Feola and the food promotion activities of the Irish Trade Board. It acts as a link between the Irish food production industry and international customers, both existing and potential, and aims to develop export markets for the Irish food and drink sector. It provides suppliers with details of exporters, production, quality standards, health regulations and controls as well as details of new developments in the industry.

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Bord Iascaigh MharaP.O. Box 12Crofton RoadDun LaoghaireCo. DublinTel: 01 2144100 Fax: 01 2841123Email: [email protected] Website: www.bim.ie

Chairperson: Rose McHugh Chief Executive: Jason Whooley Bord Iascaigh Mhara is the Irish State agency with responsibility for developing the Irish Sea Fishing and Aquaculture industries. It was established under the Sea Fisheries Act 1952 and provides a wide range of financial, technical, educational, business, innovation and trade development services for fishermen, processors, fish-farmers, retailers and exporters.Note: Under Budget 2009, the marketing and promotion functions of Bord Iascaigh Mhara have been transferred to An Bord Bia.Note: According to the programme for public service reform, published in November 17 2011, Bord Iascaigh Mhara is to be abolished and its function merged into the Department. At the time of publication no firm date had been given.

COFORDDepartment of Agriculture, Fisheries and FoodArena Road Kildare StreetSandyford Dublin 2Dublin 18Tel: 01 2130725; 01 6072487 Fax: 01 6764037Email: [email protected] Website: www.coford.ie

Chairperson: Michael LynnCoford (formerly the National Council for Forest Research & Development) was established in 1993 and is a non-statutory agency under the aegis of the Department. It is responsible for funding and co-ordinating research and development projects with the aim of developing the forestry industry through technical innovation and good silvicultural practice. Note: Under Budget 2009, COFORD will be subsumed into the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

Coillte The Irish Forestry BoardNewtonmountkennedyCo. WicklowTel: 01 2011111 Fax: 01 2011199Email: [email protected]: www.coillte.ie

Chairperson: Brendan McKennaChief Executive: David Gunning Coillte is a private limited company operating in forestry and related activities on a commercial basis. Established under the Forestry Act 1988, it is co-owned by the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Agriculture. Its functions include operating efficient silvicultural practices on a commercial basis, resource management, establishing woodland industries and cooperating with other parties in enhancing the profitable operation of the company.

Horse Sport IrelandRegistrations UnitBeech HouseMillenium ParkOsberstown, NaasCo. KildareTel: 045 850800Fax: 045 850850Email: [email protected] Website: www.irishsporthorse.com

Chairperson: Joe WalshChief Executive: Damian McDonaldHorse Sport Ireland was established by then Minister for Art, Sport and Tourism, John O’Donoghue, in order to ensure the promotion and development of an internationally competitive Irish sport horse industry. The agency was established following the acceptance of proposals contained in a report prepared by Mr. Michael Dowling, which recommended new governance structures for horse sport in Ireland. Joe Walsh T.D., Chairman of the Irish Horse Board, was designated the Chairman of the new agency.

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Irish National Stud Company LtdTully KildareCo. KildareTel: 045 521251 Fax: 045 522129Email: [email protected] Website: www.irish-national-stud.ie

Chairperson: Lady O’Reilly Chief Executive: John OsborneThe National Irish Stud Company provides facilities, promotion, education and accommodation services to the Irish Bloodstock industry with a view to fostering quality bloodlines. The company also provides support for the tourism industry in Ireland through the provision of visiting facilities and the maintenance of the Japanese Gardens.

National Milk AgencyIPC House35-39 Shelbourne RoadBallsbridgeDublin 4Tel: 01 6603396 Fax: 01 660 3389E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.nationalmilkagency.ie

Chairperson: Denis Murphy Chief Executive: Muiris Ó CéidighThe National Milk Agency was established by the Oireachtas to regulate the supply of milk for liquid consumption throughout the state in accordance with the provisions of the Milk (Regulation of Supply) Act, 1994. The agency has power of inspection over any premises whereupon which milk is produced, sold, kept or stored for sale, as well as any vehicles used for the conveyance of milk.Note: According to the programme for public service reform, published in November 17 2011, the National Milk Agency is to be abolished or its functions are to be merged with Bord Bia. At the time of publication, no firm date had been given.

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Sea Fisheries Protection Authority Park RoadClogheenClonakiltyCo. CorkTel: 023 8859300Fax: 023 8859720Email: [email protected] Website: www.sfpa.ie

Executive Chairperson: Peter WhelanBoard Members: Andrew Kinneen, Michael O’Mahony Senior Managers: Seamus Gallagher, Donal O’Callaghan, Conor O’Shea The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) was established under the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006. It is the authority for the enforcement of Sea-Fisheries Protection and Seafood Safety Legislation on Ireland and throughout Irish territorial waters.

TeagascOak ParkCarlowTel: 059 9170200Fax: 059 9182097Email: [email protected] Website: www.teagasc.ie

Chairperson: Dr. Noel CawleyDirector: Prof. Gerry BoyleTeagasc, the agriculture and food development authority, was established in September 1988 under the Agriculture (Research, Training and Advice) Act, 1988. It is the national body providing integrated research, advisory and training services to the agriculture and food industry and rural communities. The board of Teagasc is appointed by the Minister and has representatives from the farming organisations, the food industry, the universities, the department and Teagasc staff.

Veterinary Council53 Lansdowne RoadBallsbridgeDublin 4Tel: 01 6684402Fax: 01 6604373Email: [email protected] Website: www.vci.ie

President: Currently Ms Lindy Vaughn. She will be in office until 31st December 2011. A new President will be appointed at first council meeting on 1st January 2012.Registrar: Valerie BeattyThe Veterinary Council of Ireland was established under the Veterinary Practice Act 2005. Its principal function is to regulate and manage the practice of veterinary medicine and veterinary nursing in the State in the public interest.

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Chapter 15 Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport

Core areas of responsibility• National roads programme• Road safety• Vehicle standards regulation• Road transport operator licensing• Driver licensing and testing• Provision of new public transport • Infrastructure and facilities• Public transport standards regulation

• Regulation of aviation practice and procedures• Aviation infrastructure• Airport services• Irish Coast Guard• Maritime Safety Directorate• Sports Policy• Sports Capital Projects• Tourism Policy and Development

IntroductionThe mandate of the Department of Transport,

Tourism and Sport, which was established following the General Election in 2011 is to:

• Deliver on the national roads programme as part of the National Development Plan and to implement the Governments roads safety strategy.

• Provide a well functioning, integrated public transport system and ensure improved public transport provision by delivering new public transport infrastructure and facilities.

• Ensure that aviation practices and procedures comply with best international standards. Promote the development of a vibrant, competitive and progressively regulated aviation sector. Provide adequate airport infrastructure and competitive airport services.

• Establish, promote, regulate and enforce maritime safety and security standards. Provide emergency response services and safeguard the maritime environment. The department is also responsible for ports and shipping policy.

• In the sport sector, the department focuses on the formulation, development and evaluation of policy which is implemented primarily by the Irish Sports Council; overseeing major sporting projects such as the development of a sports campus at Abbotstown and the administration of the Sports Capital and the Local Authority Swimming Pool Programmes.

• In the tourism sector, the department aims to facilitate the continued development of an economic and environmentally sustainable and spatially balanced tourism industry. The department seeks to achieve this through formulating, monitoring and reviewing a range of supporting policies and programmes, particularly within the framework of the National Development Plan and North/South Co-operation. The department is also responsible for overseeing and monitoring the implementation of the strategy for Irish Tourism development as set out in the report of the Tourism Policy Review Group published in September 2003.


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Offices44 Kildare StreetDublin 2(Office of the Minister and Secretary General, Headquarters, all divisions unless otherwise stated)

25 Clare Street Dublin 2(All Corporate Services divisions)

Clonfert HouseBridge StreetLoughreaCo. Galway(Road Transport Operator Licence Division)

Shannon Town CentreShannonCo. Clare(Vehicle Registration Unit)

Leeson LaneDublin 2(Irish Coast Guard, Maritime Safety Marine Survey Office, Internal Audit, Road Safety Division, Air Accident Investigation Unit, Public Transport Division, Maritime Transport Division, National Sustainable Transport Office A and B)

Main Telephone Number: 01 6707444 LoCall: 1890 443 311Fax: 01 6709633Email: [email protected]

Email protocol: [email protected]: www.transport.ie

Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport

Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport: Leo Varadkar TDAppointed: March 2011Political party: Fine Gael

Contact details for the Minister’s office: Tel: 01 6041062 (Department) 01 618 3819 (Dáil)Fax: 01 6041183 (Department) Email: [email protected]/[email protected] Private Secretary: Chris Smith,Email: [email protected] Advisor: Nick MillerEmail: [email protected] Special Advisor: Brian MurphyEmail: [email protected] Advisor: John CarrollEmail: [email protected]

Previous party positions: Leo Varadkar was spokesperson on enterprise, trade and employment from 2007 until 2010 and most recently he was spokesperson on communications and energy.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Varadkar was co-opted to Fingal County Council in 2003. He was elected to the council at the 2004 local elections to represent the Castleknock local electoral area. He is a former vice-president of the Youth of the European People’s Party and is an alumnus of the Washington Ireland Program.Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Varadkar studied medicine in Trinity College where he earned a BA, BAO, BCh and MB in 2003. Prior to entering politics he worked in several hospitals before opting for a career in General Practice.Electoral History: Deputy Varadkar was first elected to the Dáil following the 2007 general election for the Dublin West constituency.


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Minister of State: Alan Kelly TDSpecial Responsibility: Public and commuter transport Appointed: March 2011Political Party: Labour

Contact Details for Ministers Office:Tel: 01 6041114 (Department) 01 618 3229 (Dáil) (067 34190 (Constituency) Email: [email protected]/[email protected]

Previous party positions: Deputy Kelly was Labour party spokesperson on tourism and Seanad spokesperson on finance and local government.Previous political roles: Deputy Kelly was a member of the internal market & consumer protection, agriculture & rural development and petitions committees of the European Parliament; and the US–EU Inter-parliamentary delegation.Electoral History: Deputy Kelly was elected to the Dáil for Tipperary North/Offaly South in the February 2011 general election. He was elected as an MEP for the South constituency at the 2009 European Parliament election. In 2007 he was elected to the 23rd Seanad (Agricultural panel).

Minister of State: Michael Ring TDSpecial Responsibility: Tourism and sport Appointed: March 2011Political party: Fine GaelContact details for the Minister’s office:

Tel: 01 6041034 (Department) 01 6183738 (Dáil) 098 25734 (Constituency)Fax: 01 6041672 (Department) 098 27644 (Constituency)Email: [email protected]/[email protected] Previous committee positions: Between 1994 and 1997, Deputy Ring was a member of the following Oireachtas committees: the joint services committee; joint Oireachtas committee on women’s rights; and the select Oireachtas committee on enterprise and economic strategy. Between 2002 and 2007, he was a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on health and children and during the 30th Dáil until July 2010, a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on arts, sport, tourism, community, equality and Gaeltacht affairs. He then became a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on social protection until the end of the 30th Dáil. Previous party positions: Deputy Ring was spokesperson for agriculture from 1997 to 2000, for health from 2000 to 2002,social and family affairs from 2002-2004 and for community, rural and

Gaeltacht affairs in the 30th Dáil until he became spokesperson on social protection in July 2010. Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Ring was a member of the Westport Urban District Council from 1979 to 2003 of which he was chairperson from 1982 to 1983 and 1988 to 1989. He was also a member of Mayo County Council from 1991 to 2003. Education/Previous Occupation: His former occupation was that of an auctioneer. Electoral history: Deputy Ring was first elected to the Dáil in a by-election in 1994 for the Mayo-West constituency. Following a change in constituency boundaries, Deputy Ring has been returned in every election since the 1994 election for the Mayo constituency.


Fianna Fáil: Timmy Dooley TD Leinster House Tel: 01 6183514Constituency: ClareEmail: [email protected]

Sinn Féin: Dessie Ellis TD (Transport and Housing)Leinster House Tel: 01 6183006Constituency: Dublin North

WestEmail: [email protected]

Sinn Féin: Sandra McLellan TD (Arts, Heritage, Tourism and Sport)Leinster House Tel: 01 6183122

Constituency: Cork EastEmail: [email protected]

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Joint Committee on Environment, Transport, Culture and the Gaeltacht This Committee shadows the activities of the Departments of: • Environment, Community and Local Government; • Transport, Tourism and Sports; and• Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

This Committee covers important areas of public policy in the fields of transport, the environment, culture and the Gaeltacht, including: achieving balanced regional development; environmental protection; addressing climate change; managing national and local transport issues; and promoting

the development of Gaeltacht areas.The Committee conducts inquiries into areas of current interest within its remit. At the end of an inquiry, the Committee will usually produce a report setting out its findings and making recommendations

to the Government.

Clerk to the Committee Eugene Ó Cruadhlaoich/Sinead QuinnEmail: [email protected], [email protected]: 01 618 3575 / 3102

Deputies:



Niall Collins Fianna Fail




Timmy Dooley Fianna Fail





Seán Kenny Labour





Gerald Nash Labour

Patrick O’Donovan




Senators:



Denis Landy Labour




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Chairperson: Ciarán Lynch TD (Labour) Tel: 01 6183666Email: [email protected]


The DepartmentSecretary General: Tom O’MahonyAppointed: June 2009Private Secretary: Kay KillianContact details for Secretary General’s office: Tel: 01 6041348

Previous positions: Tom O’Mahony was appointed Secretary General of the Department of Transport in June 2009. The Department was renamed the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport in April 2011 to reflect its expanded functions. Mr O’Mahony’s previous post was Assistant Secretary of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government. His responsibilities as head of the environment division included climate change policy and sustainable development. He has also worked in the Departments of Health, Finance and Agriculture.Education/ Qualifications: He holds Master’s Degrees in Economics (UCD) and Public Sector Analysis (TCD).


(i) Land Transport Sector and Investment, Aviation Sector, Sustainable Travel, Internal AuditThe structure of the division is• Assistant Secretary: John Fearon• Public Transport Division - Principal Officer: Liam Daly • Transport Investment Division: - Principal Officer: Doreen Keaney - Principal Advisor: Dominic Mullaney • Airports Division- Principal Officer: Mary Dunning • Aviation Services and Security Division- Principal Officer: Ethna Brogan- Assistant Principals: James Lavelle, Austin

Cunningham, Seamus Ryan, Derek Rafferty• National Sustainable Travel Office Area A - Senior Advisor: Laura Behan• National Sustainable Travel Office Area B - Senior Advisor: John McCarthy• Internal Audit - Assistant Principal: Ciaran Whelan

(ii) Maritime Sector, National Driver File, Freight and Logistics PolicyMaritime is split into two sections: the Maritime Safety Directorate (which is made up of the Maritime Safety and Marine Environment Division, the Marine Survey Office and the Mercantile Marine Office) and the Irish Coast Guard. The National Driver and Vehicle File is based in Shannon. The Freight and Logistics Policy Division is located in Dublin and in Loughrea.

The structure of the division is • Assistant Secretary: Maurice Mullen• Maritime Safety Policy Division - Principal Officer: Martin Diskin- Assistant Principals: Ann Cody; Eilis O’Connor;

Edwina O’Leary; Kieron McCann• Marine Survey Office (incl. Marine Radio

Affairs Unit) - Chief Surveyor: Brian Hogan- Deputy Chief Surveyor: James Snelgrove • Irish Coast Guard - Director: Chris Reynolds - Deputy Directors: Gerard Smullen, Eugene

Clonan• Maritime Transport Division - Principal Officer: Mary Lally• Freight and Logistic Policy Division - Principal Officer: Eilish Kennedy

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• Driver and Vehicle Computer Services Division

- Principal Officer: Gerry O’Malley

(iii) Transport Investment, Road Safety, Corporate Services and Agency Restructuring, The structure of the division is• Assistant Secretary: Dermot McCarthy• Air Accident Investigation Unit - Chief Aeronautical Officer: Jurgen Whyte• Agency Restructuring- Assistant Principal: Liam Keogh• Road Safety and Motor Insurance - Principal Officer: Maurice Treacy• Permanent Representation Brussels - Principal Officer: Michael Harper• Information Services Division - Principal Officer: Marv Nic Lochlainn• Finance Division - Principal Officer: Fintan Towey• Legal Services Division: Secretary General- Legal Advisor: Michael Dreelan

(v) Sport 1The Sports Capital Programme is responsible for administration of subhead C1, C2 and C5; administration of sports capital programme, Lansdowne Road Stadium, administration of local authority swimming pools programme.• Assistant Secretary: Donagh Morgan• Principal Officer: Sylvester Carruth • Assistant Principals: Conor Falvey; Michael

Moore (Sports Capital); John M. O’Donoghue (LASPP)

(vi) Sports 2Sports 2 has responsibility for Irish sports council legislation; Irish Institute of Sport; Coaching Ireland; International Relations – EU, Council of Europe, WADA.National Sports Facilities Strategy; Audit of Local Sports Facilities; London 2012; Morton Stadium; Volunteers Awards Scheme; North/South Issues; Code of Practice for Safety at Sports Grounds;Liaison with Irish Sports Council; administration of subheads C3 and C6; Preparation of Speeches, Briefs and PQs.• Assistant Secretary: Donagh Morgan• Principal Officer: Tim Scully• Assistant Principals: Orlaith Gleeson (Irish

Sports Co. etc); Carol O’Reilly (NSFS etc); Betty

Griffin (Sports Council)• Human Resources Division: - Principal Officer: Jean Kelly

(vii) Tourism Development, Policy and Governance Coordination Division, Internal Audit The Tourism Development Policy Unit has responsibility for reviewing and facilitating the delivery mechanisms for State support for tourism as well as facilitating and reviewing the use of public funds for Human Resource (HR), enterprise and product development in the tourism sector.• Assistant Secretary: Paul Bates• Principal Officer: John Kelly • Assistant Principals: Donal Hannigan; Bernard

O’Shea

(viii) Tourism Marketing Policy and Impact AssessmentThe main functions of the Tourism Marketing Unit are to develop, monitor and review the overall policy framework for tourism marketing and to coordinate departmental policy input in relation to the EU, North-South and East-West Co-operation. The high-level objective of the Impact Assessment Unit is to contribute to the formulation, implementation and review of Government policy as it impacts on tourism to ensure that sustainable and competitive tourism optimises the economic and social benefits to the State. Specifically, the unit is involved in tourism marketing and promotion policy; North-South and British-Irish coordination; EU coordination; and impact assessment. • Assistant Secretary: Paul Bates• Principal Officer: Ray O’Leary • Assistant Principals: Gerri O’Sullivan; Noel

Sheahan• Policy and Governance Coordination Division - Assistant Secretary: Paul Bates• Policy and Governance Coordination Division - Principal Officer: Eddie Burke


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Secretary General: Tom

O’Mahony

The Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport

Internal Audit


Maurice Mullen

Maritime Safety Policy

Division

Marine Survey Office (incl. Marine Radio Affairs

Unit)

Irish Coast Guard

Maritime Transport Division

Road Safety and Motor Insurance

Agency Restructuring

Air Accident Investigation

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Dermot McCarthy


John Fearon

Public Transport Division

Transport Investment

Division

Airports Division

Aviation Services

and Security Division

Sport 1


Donagh Morgan


Donagh Morgan

Sports 2

Human Resources

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Tourism Marketing Policy and

Impact Assessment

Assistant Secretary: Paul Bates

Freight and Logistic Policy

Division

Information Services Division

Permanent Representation

Brussels

Finance Division

National Sustainable Travel Office

Area A

National Sustainable Travel Office

Area B

Legal Services Division

Tourism Development,

Policy and Governance Coordination

Division, Internal Audit

Policy and Governance Coordination

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Driver and Vehicle

Computer Services Division


Agencies and Associated BodiesCommission for Aviation Regulation3rd Floor Alexandra HouseEarlsfort Terrace Dublin 2Tel: 01 6611700 Fax: 01 6611269 Email: [email protected] Website: www.aviationreg.ie

Commissioner: Cathal GuiomardThe Commission for Aviation Regulation was established on February 27 2001 under the Aviation Regulation Act, 2001.The principal function of the Commission for Aviation Regulation is to regulate airport charges and air traffic control charges at Irish airports, which have an annual throughput of in excess of one million passengers. The Commission also has responsibility for slot allocation at Dublin Airport, licensing of air carriers under EU regulations, regulation of the ground-handling market and licensing of travel agents and tour operators.Note: According to the programme for public service reform, published on November 17 2011, the Commission for Aviation Regulation is to be amalgamated with the Irish Aviation Authority. At the time of publication, no firm date had been given for this merger.

Córas Iompair ÉireannHeuston StationDublin 8 Tel: 01 7032008Fax: 01 7032276 Website: www.cie.ie

Chairperson: Ms Vivienne JuppChief Executive (Iarnród Éireann): Dick FearnChief Executive (Bus Éireann): Martin NolanChief Executive (Bus Átha Cliath): Paddy DohertyManaging Director (Bus Átha Cliath): Paddy DohertyCóras Iompair Éireann is the main authority for the provision of public transport within the State. The three companies operating with CIÉ are Iarnród Éireann, Bus Éireann and Bus Átha Cliath.

Dublin Airport AuthorityHead OfficeDublin AirportCo. DublinTel: 01 8141111Email: [email protected]

Chief Executive: Declan CollierDAA’s principal activities include the operation and management of Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports and global airport retailing through our subsidiary Aer Rianta International (ARI). The company is State-owned, headquartered at Dublin Airport, and employs 3,000 people. Group turnover in 2010 was €558 million.

Cork AirportTel: 021 4313131Director: Pat Keohane

Shannon AirportTel: 061 712000Director: Mary Considine

Fáilte Ireland (the National Tourism Development Authority)88/95 Amiens StreetDublin 1Tel: 01 8847700 LoCall: 1890 525 525Fax: 01 8556821E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.failteireland.ie (Corporate); www.ireland.ie (Consumer)

Chairperson: Redmond O’ DonoghueChief Executive: Shaun Quinn Fáilte Ireland (the National Tourism Development Authority) was established under the National Tourism Development Authority Act 2003 to guide and promote tourism as a leading indigenous component of the Irish economy. It provides strategic and practical support to develop and sustain Ireland as a high-quality and competitive tourist destination, its mission being “To increase the contribution of tourism to the economy by facilitating the development of a competitive and profitable tourism industry.” Fáilte Ireland works in partnership with Tourism Ireland (who promote Ireland as a holiday destination to overseas markets) and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board (responsible for tourism development and marketing in Northern Ireland.

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Irish Aviation AuthorityThe Times Building 11-12 D’Olier Street Dublin 2Tel: 01 6718655Fax: 01 6792934Email: [email protected] Website: www.iaa.ie

Chairperson: Anne NolanChief Executive: Eamonn BrennanThe IAA was established under the Irish Aviation Authority Act, 1993. It is responsible for the provision of air traffic management services in Irish-controlled airspace and for the safety regulation of the Irish civil aviation industry. The safety regulatory functions include; certifying and registering aircraft airworthiness; licensing personnel and organisations involved in aircraft maintenance; licensing pilots, air traffic controllers and aerodromes and approving and monitoring air carrier operating standards. Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, the Irish Aviation Authority is to be amalgamated with the Commission for Aviation Regulation. At the time of publication, no firm date had been given for this merger.

Irish Sports CouncilTop FloorBlock AWestend Office ParkBlanchardstownDublin 15 Tel: 01 8608800Fax: 01 8608880Email: [email protected] Website: www.irishsportscouncil.ie

Chairperson: Kieran MulveyChief Executive: John TreacyThe Irish Sports Council’s mandate comes from the Irish Sports Council Act, 1999. This gives the Council’s six key functions as encouraging the promotion, development and co-ordination of competitive sport; developing strategies for increasing participation in recreational sport and co-ordinating their implementation by all Irish bodies involved in promoting recreational sport and providing recreational sport facilities; facilitating good standards of conduct and fair play in both competitive and recreational sport, combating doping in sport; initiating and encouraging research concerning competitive or recreational sport; facilitating research and disseminating information concerning competitive or recreational sport.Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, legislation, to be published in 2012, will enable the merger of the Irish Sports Council with the National Sports Campus Development Authority in 2013.

Marine Casualty Investigation BoardLeeson LaneDublin 2Tel: 01 6783485Fax: 01 6783493Email: [email protected] Website: www.mcib.ie

Chairperson: John G. O’DonnellThe Marine Casualty Investigation Board (MCIB) was established on June 5 2002 under Section 7(1) of the Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) Act, 2000. Its function is to investigate marine casualties that take place in Irish waters or involve Irish registered vessels; the main purpose of those investigations being to establish the cause(s) of a marine casualty with a view to making recommendations to the Minister for Transport for the avoidance of similar marine casualties. Note: Under Budget 2009, the board will be amalgamated with the Air Accident Investigation Unit (Department of Transport) and the Railway Accident Investigation Unit (Railway Safety Commission)

Medical Bureau of Road SafetyDepartment of Forensic MedicineUCDEarlsfort Terrace Dublin 2Tel: 01 4781723Fax: 01 4781103Email: [email protected]

National Roads AuthoritySt. Martin’s HouseWaterloo RoadDublin 4Tel: 01 6602511 Fax: 01 6680009Email: [email protected] Website: www.nra.ie

Chairperson: Peter MaloneChief Executive: Fred BarryThe National Roads Authority was formally established as an independent statutory body under the Roads Act, 1993. The Authority’s primary function is ‘to secure the provision of a safe and efficient network of national roads’ and it has overall responsibility for planning and supervision of construction and maintenance works on Irish roads.Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, the National Roads Authority is to be amalgamated with the Railway Procurement Agency. At the time of publication, no firm date had been given for this merger.

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National Sports Campus Development AuthorityI.I.S. BuildingNational Sports CampusAbbotstownDublin 15Tel: 01 8097300Fax: 01 8097336Email: [email protected] Website: www.csid.ie

Chairperson: Dan Flinter Chief Executive: Barry O’Brien The National Sports Campus Development Authority (NSCDA) was established on a statutory basis to succeed in function and responsibility Campus and Stadium Ireland Development Company Ltd. (CSID). The Authority will continue the role of overseeing the planning and development of the National Sports Campus at Abbotstown, and also has responsibility for the operation of the National Aquatic Centre, which is the first element of the Campus. NSCDA has also refurbished buildings on the Campus to accommodate the headquarters of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) and the Irish Institute of Sport (IIS).Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, legislation, to be published in 2012, will enable the merger of the National Sports Campus Development Authority with the Irish Sports Council in 2013.

National Transport AuthorityDún ScéineHarcourt LaneDublin 2Tel: 01 879 8300Fax: 01 879 8333Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.nationaltransport.ie/

Chairperson: John FitzgeraldChief Executive: Gerry MurphyThe National Transport Authority (NTA) is a State body set up under statute in 2009. The role and functions of the NTA are set out in two Acts of the Oireachtas: the Dublin Transport Authority Act 2008 and the Public Transport Regulation Act 2009. The NTA has a national role for licensing bus routes, as well as a wider role for the greater Dublin area, which includes promoting an integrated public transport network. The NTA took over the role of the Dublin Transportation Office which was abolished in 2009. Note: The functions of the Commission for taxi Regulation have been also been transferred to the NTA since 2009.

Railway Procurement AgencyParkgate Business CentreParkgate StreetDublin 8Tel: 01 6463400 Fax: 01 6463401Email: [email protected] Website: www.rpa.ie

Chairperson: Tom Mulcahy Chief Executive Officer: Frank AllenThe Railway Procurement Agency was established as an independent statutory body under the Transport (Railway Infrastructure) Act, 2001. It is responsible for providing and/or securing the provision of such light railway and metro infrastructure as may be determined from time to time by the Minister for Transport. It is also responsible for monitoring and publishing regular reports on the safety of the infrastructure.Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, the Railway Procurement Agency is to be amalgamated with the National Roads Authority. At the time of publication, no firm date had been given for this merger.

Railway Safety CommissionTrident HouseBlackrockCounty DublinTel: 01 2068110 Email: [email protected] Website: www.rsc.ie

Commissioner for Railway Safety: Gerald BeesleyEstablished under the Railway Safety Act 2005, the Commission has responsibility for matters of railway and cableway safety on passenger-carrying systems and freight-carrying systems where they interface with public roads. Its principal functions are to foster and encourage railway safety, to enforce the Railway Safety Act 2005 and any other legislation relating to railway safety and to investigate and report on railway incidents. Note: Under Budget 2009, the Railway Accident Investigation Unit (Railway Safety Commission) will be amalgamated with the Air Accident Investigation Unit (Department of Transport) and the Marine Casualty Investigation Board.Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, the Railway Safety Comission is to be amalgamated with the Road Safety Authority and the Maritime Safety Directorate as part of establishing a single transport safety body. At the time of publication, no firm date had been given for this merger.

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Road Safety AuthorityMoy Valley Business ParkPrimrose HillBallinaCo. MayoLoCall: 1890 406040Email: [email protected] Website: www.rsa.ie

Chairperson: Gay Byrne Chief Executive Officer: Noel BrettThe Road Safety Authority was formally established on September 1 2006. Its principal functions include road safety promotion, accident and road safety research, vehicle standards, driver testing and licensing, registration of driver instructors, road haulage enforcement functions, driver vocational training and compulsory basic training for motorcyclists. Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published on November 17 2011, the Road Safety Authority is to be amalgamated with the Railway Safety Comission and the Maritime Safety Directorate as part of establishing a single transport safety body. At the time of publication, no firm date had been given for this merger.

Tourism Ireland LtdRepublic of Ireland Office5th FloorBishop’s SquareRedmond’s HillDublin 2Tel: 01 4763400Fax: 01 4763666Email: [email protected] Website: www.tourismireland.com

Northern Ireland Office2 Beresford RoadColeraineNorthern Ireland BT52 1GETel: +44 2870 359200 Fax: +44 2870 326932Email: [email protected] Website: www.tourismireland.com

Chairperson: Ann RiordanChief Executive: Niall GibbonsEstablished under the framework of the Good Friday Agreement 1998, Tourism Ireland works with the two tourist boards on the island (Fáilte Ireland and the Northern Ireland Tourist Board) who are responsible for product and enterprise development and marketing to tourism consumers within the island of Ireland. The company is responsible for all-Ireland destination marketing and the delivery of regional and promotion activity on behalf of Bord Fáilte, the Northern Irish Tourist Board and the overseas office network.

The following also fall under the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport:

• Arklow Harbour• Baltimore and Skibbereen Harbour• Bantry Bay Harbour• Drogheda Port Company• Dublin Port Company• Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company• Galway Harbour Company• Kinsale Harbour• New Ross Port Company• Port of Waterford Company• Shannon Foynes Port Company• Wicklow Port Company

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Chapter 16 Department of Health

The Department of Health was created in 1947, with Dr. James Ryan becoming the first Minister. From 1997 to 2011, the Department was titled Health and Children. However, following the General Election in 2011, responsibility for children was transferred to a new Department of Children and Youth Affairs

The Department of Health’s statutory role is to support the Minister in the formulation and evaluation of policies for the health services. It also has a role in the strategic planning of health services. This is carried out in conjunction with the Health Service Executive, voluntary service providers, Government departments and other interested parties.

OfficesDepartment of HealthHawkins HouseDublin 2

Tel: 01 6354000 LoCall: 1890 200 311Fax: 01 6354001Email: [email protected] Email protocol: [email protected]: www.dohc.ie


• Health policy formulation• Providing direction to national health priorities• Monitoring and evaluation of performance• Providing regulatory framework for health services• Providing effective stewardship over health resources• Planning to improve governance of health system• Fulfilling obligations in relation to international organisations

Introduction

The department’s current mission statement is:

“to improve the health and well-being of people in Ireland in a manner that promotes better health for everyone, fair access, responsive and appropriate care delivery, and high performance.”


Minister for HealthMinister for Health: Dr James Reilly TD Appointed: March 2011Political party: Fine GaelContact details for the Minister’s office:Tel: 01 6354362 (Department);

01 6183749 (Dáil) Fax: 01 6714508 (Department) Email: minister’[email protected];[email protected] Secretary: Stephen DoranEmail: [email protected] Advisor: Sean FaughnanEmail: [email protected] Advisor: Mark Costigan Email: [email protected]

Other current positions: Deputy Reilly is deputy leader of Fine Gael. He is also an Irish member of the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly. Previous committee positions: Deputy Reilly was a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on health and children during the 30th Dáil. Previous party positions: He became spokesperson on health in 2007 and then also deputy leader of Fine Gael in July 2010.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Reilly served on the former Eastern Health Board and was chairperson of its community care committee and psychiatric hospitals and mental health committee. He also served on the Eastern Regional Health Authority and the Northern Area Health Board. He is an Irish member of the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly. Education/Previous Occupation: Deputy Reilly was educated at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, received a MMedSc from University College, Dublin and worked as a general medical practitioner. He was also President of the Irish Medical Organisation prior to his election. Electoral history: Deputy Reilly was first elected to the Dáil in 2007 for the Dublin North constituency and was re-elected in 2011.

Ministers of StateMinister of State: Kathleen Lynch TDSpecial Responsibility: Disability, equality, mental health and older people Appointed: March 2011Political party: Labour Party

Contact details for the Minister’s office: Tel: 01 6354426 (Department); 01 6184034 (Dáil); 021 4399930 (Constituency)Fax: 021 4304358(Constituency)Email: [email protected];[email protected] Secretary: Adrian McLaughlinEmail: [email protected]

Previous committee memberships: Deputy Lynch was a member of the committee on enterprise and small business from 2002 to 2006; a member of the committee on justice, equality, defence and women’s rights from 2002 to 2007; and a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on health and children in the 30th Dáil. Previous party positions: She was previously convener for the labour party.Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Lynch was elected to Cork Corporation in 1985 as a member of the Workers Party.Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Lynch has always been a full-time public representative.Electoral history: Deputy Lynch was first elected to the Dáil in 1994 following a by-election in the Cork North-Central constituency with the Democratic Left party and remained a member until 1997. She was re-elected to the Dáil in 2002..

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Minister of State: Róisín Shortall TDSpecial Responsibility: Primary care Appointed: March 2011Political party: Labour Party Contact details for the

Minister’s Office: Tel: 01 6354769 (Department) 01 6183593 (Dáil)Fax: 01 6354765 (Department) Email: [email protected]/[email protected] Secretary: Michael Corban Email: [email protected] Press Secretary: Paul CassidyEmail: [email protected]: David CooperTel: 01 6354764 Email: [email protected] advisor: Maev-Ann Wren

Previous committee memberships: Deputy Shortall was a member of the committee on transport in the 29th Dáil and a member of the public accounts committee and the joint Oireachtas committee on social and family affairs in the 30th Dáil.Previous party positions: Deputy Shortall was formerly spokesperson on education and children from 1997 to 2002; spokesperson on transport from 2003 to 2007; and spokesperson on social and family affairs from 2007 until 2011. Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Shortall was elected to Dublin City Council in 1991, and remained a member until 2003. She served as chairperson of the Eastern Health Board from 1996 until 1998.Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Shortall was educated at University College, Dublin and St. Mary’s College of Education, Marino and she worked as a teacher for the deaf before becoming involved in politics in 1991.Electoral history: Deputy Shortall was first elected to the Dáil in 1992, and retained her seat in every election since as a representative for the Dublin North-West constituency.


Fianna Fáil: Billy Kelleher TDLeinster House Tel: 01 6183219Constituency: Cork North CentralEmail: [email protected]

Sinn Féin: Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD (Health and Children) Leinster House Tel: 01 6183005Constituency: Cavan MonaghanEmail: caoimhghí[email protected]



Joint Committee on Health and ChildrenThis Committee – and the select Committees of Dáil and Seanad Eireann of which it is made – has the power to consider:

• Legislation proposed by the Department of Health and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs during the Committee stage;• Spending by these Departments; • Matters of policy for which each Minister is officially responsible; • Public affairs administered by the Department; • Policy issues arising from Value for Money and Policy Reviews conducted or commissioned by the Department; and • Statutory instruments and EU legislation.

Clerk to the CommitteePatricia DoranEmail: [email protected]: 01 6183147

Chairperson Jerry Buttimer TD (Fine Gael)Tel: 01 6183380Email: [email protected]

Deputy Buttimer was elected to the Seanad in 2007 during which time he was the spokepseron on community, rural and Gaeltacht affairs. He was first elected to the Dáil in 2011. Deputy Buttimer was previously a secondary school teacher and Director of Adult Education at Ballincollig Community School.

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Deputies:

Jerry Buttimer Fine Gael

Catherine Byrne Fine Gael


Ciara Conway Labour

Regina Doherty Fine Gael

Robert Dowds Labour

Peter Fitzpatrick Fine Gael

Seamus Healy United Left

Derek Keating Fine Gael

Billy Kelleher Fianna Fail

Eamonn Maloney Labour

Charlie McConalogue Fianna Fail


Denis Naughten Fine Gael

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin Sinn Féin

Senators:


John Crown Independent

David Cullinane Sinn Féin

John Gilroy Labour

Imelda Henry Fine Gael

Marc Mac Sharry Fianna Fáil

Jillian Van Turnhout Independent

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The DepartmentSecretary General: Michael Scanlan Appointed: April 2005Private Secretary: Rachael O’DonoghueContact details for Secretary General’s office: Tel: 01 6354361

Previous positions: Michael Scanlan joined the civil service as an executive officer in 1973. He spent most of his career in the former Department of the Public Service and in the Department of Finance. He was an assistant secretary from 2000 to 2005 with responsibility for overall public expenditure policy, expenditure aspects of the Sustaining Progress social partnership agreement and the Government’s decentralisation programme. Previously, he was secretary to the “Gleeson” and “Buckley” review bodies on public sector remuneration.Education: Templeogue College, Dublin.


(i) Acute Hospitals, Cancer Services and Associated Services Division

The core functions of this division are to monitor, evaluate and report on delivery of acute hospital services by HSE/NHO nationally, including issues in relation to accident and emergency, contaminated blood products, and cancer strategy. The structure of the division is• Assistant Secretary: Dr. Fergal Lynch• Acute Hospitals - Principal Officer: Charles Hardy- Assistant Principals: Gregory Canning; Caroline

Kelly; Ross Hattaway • Cancer and Blood Policy - Principal Officer: Mary Jackson - Assistant Principals: Patsy Carr; Maeve

O’Brien • Private Health Insurance - Principal Officer: Dermot Ryan - Assistant Principals: Grainne Duffy; Eddie

O’Reilly; Roisin Cahillane

(ii) Special Delivery Unit - Chief Operating Officer: Tony O’Brien- Principal Officer: Simonetta Ryan- Assistant Principal: Kieran Smith

(iii) Office for Disability, Mental Health Established in January 2008, this office is responsible for the development of national policy surrounding mental health issues and the provision of services to people with disabilities. It will focus on supporting implementation of the health sectoral plan under the Disability Act and driving implementation of the recommendations in A Vision for Change and Reach Out. The office will also monitor and evaluate the implementation of the multi annual investment programme (€900m from 2006 to 2009) for people with a disability. The structure of the office is:

• Director: Bairbre NicAongusa • Disability - Principal Officer: Colm Desmond - Assistant Principals: Brian Dowling; Harry

Harris;; Gabrielle Jacob; Ann McGrane; Gerry Steadman

• Mental Health - Principal Officer: Luke Mulligan- Assistant Principals: Sandra Walsh; Joan

Regan; Gerry Steadman• Disability Appeals Office - Disability Appeals Officer: Teresa Dykes - Assistant Principal: Eileen Duffy

(iv) Finance, Performance Evaluation, Information, EU/International, Research and Resource Allocation, External/Internal ICT The structure of this division is• Assistant Secretary: Vacancy• Finance 1 - Principal Officers: David Smith - Assistant Principals: Fiona Prendergast; Helen

Minogue; Tony O’Reilly - Professional Accountant: Eunan Watters• External/Internal ICT - Principal Officer: Kevin Conlon - Assistant Principal: John Wright• Information - Senior Statistician: Hugh Magee - Assistant Principal: Aidan Clancy- Statistician: Alan Cahill; Kevin Keady

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• Capital, EU/International & Research Policy - Principal Officer: Audrey Hagarty - Assistant Principals: Christina MacCarthy;

Pamela Carter; Lousie Kenny• Performance Evaluation - Principal Officer: Tracey Conroy - Assistant Principal: Tony Flynn; Robert Deegan• Resource Allocation- Principal Officer: Laura McGarrigle- Assistant Principal: Robert Murphy; Emer Brady

(v) National Human Resources and Workforce PlanningThis division is responsible for national health strategy, as well as planning with regard to pay and conditions for nurses, doctors, and dentists. The structure of the division is• Assistant Secretary: Frances Spillane• Professional Regulation Unit - Principal Officer: Deirdre Walsh - Assistant Principals: Paul Flanagan; Geraldine

Kelly; Catherine McManus • Workforce Planning, Agency Governance and

Clinical Indemnity Unit- Principal Officer: Chris Fitzgerald - Assistant Principals: Kara Prole; Kieran Duffy;

Brendan Murphy; Pat Clifford • National HR Unit - Principal Officer: Fergal Goodman- Assistant Principals: Sorcha Murray; Eilish

Timoney; Paddy Barrett; Keith Comiskey

(vi) Parliamentary, Corporate Affairs and Corporate Legislation UnitAs well as Parliamentary Affairs – including legislation, Parliamentary Questions, and Committees – this division also has responsibility for the corporate management of the Department, including HR, ICT and communications. The structure of the division is:

• Assistant Secretary: Bernard Carey• Corporate Development - Principal Officer: Barry Murphy (Personnel

Officer) - Assistant Principal: Sean McCormack• Human Resources - Principal Officer: Barry Murphy (Personnel

Officer) - Assistant Principals: John Dolan; Michael Smith;

Eileen Duffy • Business Support and Development - Principal Officer: Barry Murphy- Assistant Principal: Mary O’Reilly

• Corporate Legislation Unit - Principal Officer: Bernadette Ryan - Assistant Principals: Peter Lennon; Lara Hynes;

Margaret McDonnell• Legal Unit - Legal Advisors: Angela O’Floinn; Kathy Skelly;

Wesley Farrell- Internal Audit: Jane Craig • Parliamentary Affairs, Communications & FOI

Units - Principal Officer: Larry O’Reilly - Assistant Principals: Derek McCormack; Paul

Howard; Roisin Heuston

(vii) Primary Care, Demand-Led Schemes, Food Safety, Medicines and Controlled Drugs, Eligibility• Assistant Secretary: Paul Barron• Food Safety, Medicines, Medical Devices - Principal Officer: John Keegan - Assistant Principals: David Maguire; Gerry

McMahon- Chief Environmental Officer: Siobhan McEvoy• Primary Care- Principal Officer: Teresa Cody- Assistant Principals: Chris Kane; Bernadette

McDonnell; Tommy Wilson• Eligibility Unit- Principal Officer: Matthew Collins- Assistant Principals: Patrick Creedon; Tom

Monks• Medicines, Pharmacy Regulation and Controlled

Drugs Unit - Chief Pharmacist: Marita Kinsella - Pharmacist: Noreen Quinn - Assistant Principals: Mary Dowling; Eddie

Quigley; Siobhan Kennan• Drugs Programmes Unit - Principal Officer: Susan Scally- Assistant Principals: Marie Mc Bride; Marie

Dempsey• Drugs Policy Unit- Principal Officer: Michael Conroy- Assistant Principals: Dairearca Ní Neill; Brendan

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Acute Hospitals,

Cancer Services and Associated Services Division

Finance, Performance Evaluation, Information,

EU/International

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Internal ICT

Parliamentary, Corporate Affairs and Corporate Legislation

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Primary Care, Demand-Led

Schemes, Food Safety,

Medicines and

Controlled Drugs,

Tobacco Control, Eligibility

Office of the chief medical

officer, including

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promotion policy, patient

safety and quality, social inclusion and

bioethics & Tobacco

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Vacant

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Paul Barron

Chief Medical Officer: Dr Tony Holohan

Acute Hospitals

Finance

Corporate Development:

Food Safety, Medicines,

Medical Devices & Tobacco Control

Patient Safety & Quality

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National Human

Resources and

Workforce Planning

Assistant Secretary: Frances Spillane

Professional Regulation

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Office for Older People

Special Delivery Unit

Secretary General Michael Scanlan

Office for Disability

and Mental Health

Director: Bairbre

NicAongusa

Disability

Director: Noel Usher

Services for Older People

The Department of Health

Chief operating

officer

External/Internal ICT

Human Resources

Primary CareHealth

Promotion & tobacco

control Unit

Workforce Planning, Agency

Governance and Clinical

Indemnity Unit

Mental Health Long Stay Charges Unit

Cancer and Blood Policy

Information

Business Support and Development

Eligibility Unit Health Protection

Unit

National HR Unit

Disability Appeals Office

Strategy Development

Unit

Disability Litigation

Social Inclusion

Medicines, Pharmacy Regulation

and Controlled Drugs Unit

Corporate Legislation

UnitCapital, EU/International & Research

Policy

Private Health Insurance

Performance Evaluation

Legal Unit

Bioethics Unit

Resource Allocation

Parliamentary Affairs,

Communications & FOI Units


(viii) Office of the Chief Medical Officer, including Health Protection and Promotion Policy, Patient Safety and Quality, Social Inclusion and Bioethics and Tobacco Control• Chief Medical Officer: Dr Tony Holohan• Deputy Chief Medical Officers: Dr Colette

Bonner; Dr Eibhlín Connolly; Dr John Devlin; Dr Jennifer Martin

• Patient Safety & Quality Unit - Deputy CMO: Dr Eibhlín Connolly - Assistant Principals: Susan Reilly; Eithne

Barron; Robbie Breen• Health Promotion Unit & Tobacco Control

Unit - Deputy CMO: Dr John Devlin- Assistant Principals: Sandra Barnes; Liam Mc

Cormack; Dilly O’Brien; - Nutrition Policy Advisor: Ursula O’Dwyer• Health Protection Unit - Principal Officer: Dora Hennessy- Assistant Principal: Nuala O’Reilly• Social Inclusion - Principal Officer: Geraldine Luddy - Assistant Principals: Tim McCarthy; Alessandra

Fantini• Bioethics Unit- Chief Bioethics Officer: Dr Siobhan O’Sullivan - Bioethics Officers: Emily deGrae, Paul Ivory - Chief Nursing Officer: Sheila O’Malley

(ix) Office for Older People• Director: Noel Usher• Services for Older People - Principal Officer: Geraldine Fitzpatrick - Assistant Principals: Michael Murchan; Angela

Noonan; Patricia Lee• Long Stay Charges Unit - Principal Officer: Chris Costello - Assistant Principals: Alison Keogh; Ciarán O’

Maoileoin• Strategy Development Unit - Principal Officer: Marie Kennedy - Assistant Principal: Ronan Toomey• Disability Litigation- Assistant Principal: Ciarán O Maoileoin

Agencies and Associated BodiesAn Bord Altranais18/20 Carysfort Avenue Blackrock Co. DublinTel: 01 6398500Fax: 01 6358595Email: [email protected] Website: www.nursingboard.ie

President: Ann Carrigy Chief Executive: Dr Maura PidgeonThe main functions of the Board are to maintain the register of nurses in Ireland and to give guidance to the nursing profession generally on all matters relating to ethical conduct and behaviour. The Board is also obliged to carry out such functions as may be assigned to it from time to time by the Minister for Health and Children in relation to any directive or regulation affecting the practice of nursing and the persons engaged in such practice. The Board promotes high standards of professional education, training and practice and professional conduct among nurses and midwives.

Bord na Radharcmhastóirí (The Opticians Board)18 Fitzwilliam SquareDublin 2Tel: 01 6767416Fax: 01 6621051Email: [email protected] Website: www.opticiansboard.ie

President: Mairéad ShieldsRegistrar: M. O’DonnellEstablished under the Opticians Acts, 1956 and 2003, the board is the regulatory body for optometrists and dispensing opticians. It is an offence for anyone other than a registered optometrist (or registered medical practitioner) to prescribe spectacles. Registered dispensing opticians may dispense spectacles prescribed by registered optometrists (or registered medical practitioners). The board’s functions include approval of the education and training of optometrists and dispensing opticians, registration of optometrists and dispensing opticians and control of optics. Note: According to the programme for public service reform, published in November 17 2011, The Opticians Board is to be abolished and its function merged into the Health and Social Care Professionals Council. At the time of publication, no firm date had been given.

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Comhairle na Nimheanna (The Poisons Council)c/o The Department of Health Hawkins HouseHawkins Street Dublin 2Tel: 01 6354390 Fax: 01 6353119

Chairperson: Not appointed at time of publicationSecretary: Not appointed at time of publicationEstablished under the Poisons Act 1961, members are appointed under the Act as Amended by the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977. The functions of the Council are to advise the Minister and the Minister for Agriculture and Food in relation to any Regulation made under the Poisons Act, and on any other matter in relation to poisons, their manufacture, storage, transport, distribution, sale or use.

Consultative Council on Hepatitis C2nd Floor HSE OfficesMill LanePalmerstownDublin 20Tel: 6201750Website: www.consultativecouncilonhepc.ie

Chairperson: Dr. Elizabeth KennyThe Consultative Council was established by the Minister for Health on the November 26 1996 by statutory instrument. Its function is to advise the Minister on all matters relating to Hepatitis C.

Dental Council57 Merrion SquareDublin 2 Tel: 01 6762069Fax: 01 6762076Email: [email protected] Website: www.dentalcouncil.ie

President: Dr Eamon CrokeChief Officer and Registrar: David O’FlynnThe Dental Council was established under the provisions of the Dentists Act 1985, its general concern being to promote high standards of professional education and professional conduct among dentists. The Council is responsible for the Register of Dentists and the Register of Dental Specialists, education and training in the State’s dental schools, inquiries into fitness to practice,

schemes for the establishment of classes of auxiliary dental workers, duties assigned to it pursuant to EU Dental Directives, advising the dental profession and the public on all matters relating to dental ethics and professional behaviour, and advising the Minister on all matters relating to the functions of the Council under the Act.

Dental Health Foundation1st Floor Corrigan HouseFenian StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6629123Fax: 01 6618721Email: [email protected] Website: www.dentalhealth.ie #

Chairperson: Dr. Brendan PigottExecutive Director: Deirdre SadlierThe foundation works with the Department of Health to provide a focus for oral health within the wider context of health promotion in Ireland. It also provides a complimentary role to public health bodies on a national basis.

Drug Treatment Centre BoardMcCarthy Centre30-31 Pearse StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6488600Fax: 01 6488700Email: [email protected] Website: www.addictionireland.ie

Chairperson: Dan McGingGeneral Manager: Sheila HeffernanFormerly known as the National Drug Advisory and Treatment Service, the DTCB was established in 1969 and is involved in providing treatment for people involved in drug abuse. It also contributes to policy development in drug and addiction management.Note: The Drug Treatment Centre Board is currently being subsumed into the HSE.

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Food Safety Authority of IrelandAbbey CourtLower Abbey StreetDublin 1 Tel: 01 8171300 LoCall: 1890 336 677Fax: 01 8171301Email: [email protected] Website: www.fsai.ie

Chairperson: Eamonn RyanChief Executive Officer: Prof. Alan ReillyThe Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) was established under the Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998. It falls under the aegis of the Minister for Health. It is responsible for ensuring that food produced, distributed or marketed in the State meets the highest standards of food safety and hygiene and complies with legal requirements or with recognised codes of good practice.

Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA)Unit 1301City Gate, Mahon, CorkTel: 021 2409300Fax: 021 2409600Email: [email protected] Website: www.hiqa.ie

Chairperson: Pat McGrath Chief Executive: Dr. Tracey CooperThe Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) is an independent authority which was set up to help drive continuous improvement in Ireland’s health and social care services. It was established on a statutory basis in May 2007, following the signing into law of the Health Act 2007. The Social Services Inspectorate (SSI) and the Irish Health Services Accreditation Board (IHSAB) have been integrated into the new authority - the former SSI has expanded powers in the Office of the Chief Inspectorate for Social Services while the former IHSAB continues its work of accreditation as part of HIQA’s Healthcare Quality function.Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published in November 17 2011, a Patient Safety Authority should be created and incorporate the HIQA with a licensing role. At the time of publication, no firm date had been given for the creation of this new authority.

Health Insurance AuthorityCanal HouseCanal Road Dublin 6Tel: 01 4060080 LoCall: 1850 929 166)Fax: 01 4060081Email: [email protected] Website: www.hia.ie

Chairperson: J. JoyceChief Executive: Liam SloyanEstablished on February 1 2002, the HIA is responsible for the regulation of the business of private health insurance in Ireland following the enactment of the European Union “Third Non-Life Insurance Directive”. The Authority also provides information to consumers regarding their rights and health insurance plans and benefits.Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published in November 17 2011, the future of the Health Insurance Authority is to be considered in the context of the proposed move to a system of Universal Health Care.

Health Research Board73 Lower Baggot St, Dublin 2Tel: 01 2345000Fax: 01 6612335Email: [email protected] Website: www.hrb.ie

Chairperson: Dr. Reg ShawChief Executive Officer: Enda ConnollyThe Health Research Board was established in 1986 under the Health (Corporate Bodies) Act 1961 through the amalgamation of several pre-existing bodies. Its mission is to improve health through research and information.

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Irish Blood Transfusion ServiceNational Blood CentreJames’s StreetDublin 8Tel: 01 4322800 Donor Infoline: 1850 731137Fax: 01 4322930Email: [email protected]: www.giveblood.ie

Chairperson: Katherine BulbuliaChief Executive: Andy KellyThe principal function of the IBTS is to organise and administer a blood transfusion service. This function entails the processing or supply of blood derivatives or other blood products, in addition to blood group and other tests in relation to specimens of blood received by the board. It is also responsible for making blood and blood products available, and for organising and encouraging research and the training and teaching of persons in matters relating to blood transfusion and preparation of blood products.

Irish Expert Body on Fluorides and Health1st Floor Corrigan HouseFenian StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6629123Fax: 01 6618721Email: [email protected] Website: www.fluoridesandhealth.ie

Chairperson: Dr. Seamus O’HickeyDirector of Secretariat: Deirdre SadlierThe Irish Expert Body on Fluorides and Health was established in April 2004 under the then Minister for Health and Children, Micheál Martin. The body’s terms of reference are the following:• to oversee the implementation of the recommendations of the Forum on Fluoridation• to advise the Minister and evaluate ongoing research, including new emerging issues, on all aspects of fluoride, its delivery methods as an established health technology and as required• to report to the Minister on matters of concern

Irish Medicines BoardKevin O’Malley HouseEarlsfort CentreEarlsfort TerraceDublin 2Tel: 01 6764971Fax: 01 6767836Email: [email protected]: www.imb.ie

Chairperson: Michael D. HayesChief Executive: Pat O’Mahony The IMB is responsible for the regulation of human and veterinary medicines available in Ireland.

Medical CouncilKingram HouseKingram PlaceDublin 2 Tel: 01 4983100Fax: 01 4983102 Email: [email protected] Website: www.medicalcouncil.ie

President: Prof. Kieran MurphyChief Executive: Caroline SpillaneThe Medical Council is responsible for protecting the interests of the public when dealing with registered medical practitioners. The Council was established by the Medical Practitioners Act 1978 and commenced operation in April 1979. Among its key functions are: • assuring the quality of undergraduate education of doctors; • assuring the quality of postgraduate training of specialists;• registration of doctors• disciplinary procedures • guidance on professional standards / ethical conduct

Mental Health CommissionSt Martin’s HouseWaterloo RoadDublin 4Tel: 01 6362400Fax: 01 6362440Email: [email protected] Website: www.mhcirl.ie

Chairperson: Dr Edmond O’DeaChief Executive Officer: Patricia GilheaneyThe Mental Health Commission is an independent statutory body established under the Mental

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Health Act 2001. It is responsible for promoting high standards in the delivery of mental health services, and for ensuring that the interests of those involuntarily admitted to approved centres are protected.Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published in November 17 2011, the Mental Health Commission is to be amalgamated with the Patient Safety Authority. At the time of publication, no firm date had been given for this merger.

National Advisory Committee on Drugs (NCAD)Hawkins House Hawkins Street Dublin 2Tel: 01 6354283Fax: 01 6473150Email: [email protected] Website: www.nacd.ie

Chairperson: Dr. Des CorriganDirector: Joan O’FlynnSenior Researcher: Dr Justine HorganThe NACD advises the government in relation to the prevalence, prevention, treatment and consequences of problem drug use in Ireland. Its core functions include research (commissioned, grant-aided, internal), communications, working with the Drug Misuse Research Division of the Health Research Board and assisting with the establishment of a National Documentation Centre.

National Cancer Registry BoardBuilding 6800Cork Airport Business ParkKinsale RoadCorkTel: 021 4318014Fax: 021 4318016Email: [email protected] Website: www.ncri.ie

Chairperson: Tony O’BrienDirector: Dr. Harry ComberThe National Cancer Registry Board was established by the Minister for Health in 1991 by statutory instrument. Its functions were laid down in its establishment order:• to identify, collect, classify, record, store and analyse information relating to the incidence and prevalence of cancer and related tumours in Ireland• to collect, classify, record and store information in relation to each newly

diagnosed individual cancer patient and in relation to each tumour which occurs • to promote and facilitate the use of the data thus collected in approved research and in the planning and management of services • to publish an annual report based on the activities of the registry • to furnish advice, information and assistance in relation to any aspect of such service to the Minister.

Note: In 2009, it was indicated that the National Cancer Registry Board will be subsumed into the HSE Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published in November 17 2011, the National Cancer Registry Board is to be abolished and its function merged into the Department. At the time of publication, no firm date had been given.

National Treatment Purchase FundAshford HouseTara StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6337763 LoCall: 1890 720 820Fax: 01 6427102Email: [email protected] Website: www.ntpf.ie

Chairperson: John HoranChief Executive: Pat O’ByrneThe NPTF was established in April 2002 as part of the strategy to reduce long-term waiting lists. It facilitates the treatment in private hospitals of patients who have been on public waiting lists for longer than three months.Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published in November 17 2011, a new Hospital Care Purchase Agency will be amalgamated with the National Treatment Purchase Fund as part of the transition to a universal health insurance model. At the time of publication, no firm date had been given for the merger.

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Office of Tobacco Control Oak HouseMillennium ParkNaasCo. KildareTel: 045 988204 LoCall: 1890 333 100)Email: info@[email protected]: www.otc.ie

Chairperson: Norma CroninChief Executive: Marie Kileen (Acting CEO) The Office of Tobacco Control was set up in response to the 2000 report of the Tobacco Free Policy Review Group. Its principal function is to advise the Minister for Health and Children and assist him/her in the implementation of Government policies and objectives on the control and regulation of tobacco products.Note: Under Budget 2009, the Office of Tobacco Control will be amalgamated with the Food Safety Association of Ireland and the Irish Medicines Board under the aegis of a new agency, the Public Health and Medicines Safety Authority; this is due to take place until January 2011.

Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland18 Shrewsbury RoadBallsbridgeDublin 4Tel: 01 2184000Fax: 01 2837678Email: [email protected] Website: www.pharmaceuticalsociety.ie

President: Paul FaheyRegistrar (CEO): Dr. Ambrose McLoughlinThe Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) is the statutory body for pharmacists and pharmacies in Ireland. It is charged with, and is accountable for, the effective regulation of pharmacy services in Ireland, including responsibility for supervising compliance with the Act. It works for the public interest to protect the health and safety of the public by regulating the pharmacy profession and pharmacies.

Pre-Hospital Emergency Care CouncilAbbey Moat HouseAbbey StNaasCo KildareTel: 045 882042Fax: 045 882089Email: [email protected] Website: www.phecit.ie

Chairperson: Tom MooneyDirector: Dr. Geoff King The Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council is an independent statutory agency charged with responsibility for standards, education and training in the field of pre-hospital emergency care in Ireland.Note: Under Budget 2009, the Council will be subsumed into the Health and Social Care Professionals Council, though an exact date has not been announced.

Note: According to the programme for public sector reform, published in November 17 2011, the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council is to be amalgamated with the Health and Social Care Professionals Council. At the time of publication, no firm date had been given for this merger.

Postgraduate Medical and Dental BoardNote: The functions of the Postgraduate Medical and Dental Board were subsumed into the Health Service Executive and the Medical Council on January 1st 2009. Correspondence regarding postgraduate medical and dental training should be addressed to:

Assumpta Linnane, Alison Drew or Noemi Palacios,HSE METR UnitDr Steevens’ HospitalDublin 8 Tel: 635 2606 Fax: 01 635 2052

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SafefoodThe Food Safety Promotion Board7 Eastgate AvenueEastgateLittle IslandCo.CorkTel: 021 2304100 (Helpline: 1850 404 567)Fax: 021 2304111Email: [email protected] Website: www.safefood.ie

Chairperson: John DardisChief Executive: Martin HigginsSafefood, the food safety promotion board, is an implementation body established under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement on December 2 1999. Its principal functions include the promotion of food safety, communication of food alerts and research into food safety.

Voluntary Health Insurance BoardVHI HouseLower Abbey StreetDublin 1

Postal Address:IDA Business ParkPurcellsinchDublin RoadKilkenny

Tel: 1890 444 444Email: [email protected] Website: www.vhi.ie

Chairperson: Bernard Collins Acting Chief Executive: Declan Moran The Voluntary Health Insurance Board was created under the Voluntary Health Insurance Act 1957 by the Minister for Health, Tom O’Higgins. The largest provider of voluntary private health insurance in the republic, it trades under the brand name VHI Healthcare, and is regulated by the Health Insurance Authority.

Health Service ExecutiveHealth Service Executive (HSE)Feidhmeannacht na Seirbhíse Sláinte (FSS)Dr Steevens’ HospitalDublin 8Tel: 01 635 2000

Oak House Millennium Park Naas Co KildareTel: 045 880400

Website: www.hse.ie

The Health Service Executive is responsible for delivering the country’s health and social care needs, and provides health and personal social services in hospitals, health facilities and communities across the country.

HSE RegionsServices are organised through four regions as follows: HSE West (Limerick, Tipperary North, Clare, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon, Leitrim, Donegal) HSE South (Kerry, Cork, Waterford, Wexford, Carlow, Kilkenny, Tipperary South) HSE Dublin North East (Dublin North, Louth, Meath, Cavan, Monaghan) HSE Dublin Mid Leinster (Dublin South, Wicklow, Kildare, Laois, Offaly, Longford, Westmeath).

Chief Executive’s OfficeChief Executive: Cathal MageeDr Steevens’ Hospital Dublin 8Tel: 01 635 2000Email: [email protected] (Personal Assistant to CEO)

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Integrated Services DirectorateSir Patrick DunsGrand Canal Street Lower Dublin 2 Tel: 01 4004160. National Director (Reconfiguration): Brian GilroyEmail: [email protected] Director (Performance and Financial Management): Laverne McGuinnessDr Steevens’ HospitalDublin 8Tel: 01 635 2337 Email: [email protected]

Regional Directors of OperationsThe range of health and personal social services provided by the HSE and its funded agencies are managed within four regions (Dublin Mid Leinster, Dublin North East, South and West). The four Regional Directors of Operations also manage the funding of services provided on behalf of the HSE through a large number of non-statutory agencies. Each region is subdivided into a number of HSE Areas. Each HSE Area Manager oversees the provision of health and personal social services in their Area at sub-regional level.

Regional Directors:HSE Dublin Mid Leinster: Gerry O’DwyerTel: 045 882597Email: [email protected] HSE Dublin North East: Stephen MulvanyTel: 01 890 8759Email: [email protected] HSE South: Pat HealyTel: 021 492 8500 Email: [email protected] HSE West: John HennessyTel: 091 775404 Email: [email protected]

Quality and Patient Safety Directorate Dr Steevens’ Hospital Dublin 8 Tel: 01 6352038 Email: [email protected] National Director: Dr Philip Crowley Quality and Patient Safety Directorate was established to ensure high quality safe services are designed and delivered to patients and clients. The directorate is committed to a multi-agency approach being taken under the auspices of the Patient Safety First initiative to ensure high-quality care is available to all patients and clients.

Clinical Strategy and ProgrammesDr. Steevens’ Hospital Dublin 8 Tel: 01 635 2000Email: [email protected] Director of Clinical Strategy and Programmes: Dr Barry WhiteClinical Strategy and Programmes Directorate: Tony O’Brien Clinical Strategy and Programmes has been established to improve and standardise patient care throughout the organisation by bringing together clinical disciplines and enabling them to share innovative solutions to deliver greater benefits to every user of HSE services.

Human ResourcesDr Steevens’ Hospital Dublin 8. Email: [email protected] National Director: Sean McGrath

Finance HSE Corporate Finance Millennium ParkNaas Co Kildare Tel: 045 882563 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] National Director: Liam Woods

Communications DirectorateDr Steevens’ Hospital Dublin 8Tel: 01 635 2417Email: [email protected]

National Director of Communications: Paul Connors Head of National Press and Media Relations: Kirsten ConnollyThe Communications Directorate is responsible for developing and managing the HSE’s internal and public communications initiatives and provides consultancy advice and support to staff across the organisation.

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Head of Parliamentary Affairs Division: Ray MitchellTel: 01 6352500Email: [email protected] the efficient management of Parliamentary Questions (PQs) and representations from Oireachtas members. PQ responses from the HSE are posted on the HSE website, www.hse.ie.

Commercial and Support Services DirectorateThe Commercial and Support Services Directorate incorporates the functions of Estates, ICT, Procurement.,Commercial and Legal Services.

EstatesSir Patrick Duns Grand Canal Street Lower Dublin 2 Tel: 01 4004160 Email: [email protected] of Estates: Brian GilroyEstates Management manages the organisation’s €10 billion capital infrastructure and the annual capital plan.

Information and Communications Tecnnology3rd Floor - Block D Parkgate Business Campus Parkgate Street Dublin8 Tel: 01 635 2743

National Director: Gerard HurlEmail: [email protected] Acting Head: Fran ThompsonEmail: [email protected] ICT provides essential support for all administrative and support services and, increasingly, patient care delivery. It embraces all voice, video and data communications technologies and provides one central management point for all purchases of hardware, software, telecommunications, ICT development and advisory services.

Procurement Sir Patrick Duns Grand Canal Street Lower Dublin 2 Tel: 01 4004160 Email: [email protected]

Head of Procurement: Brian GilroyThe overall objective of the Procurement Directorate is to ensure effective support for patient care and the achievement of value for money through best practice procurement.

Legal Services HSE63-64 Adelaide Road Dublin 2 Tel: 01 6626966 E-mail: [email protected] of Legal Services: Eunice O’Raw The Office of Legal Services was established in March 2010 pursuant to the HSE’s commitment to transform the delivery and management of legal services to the HSE. The focus of this Office is to safeguard the needs and interests of all those who use the services of the HSE, those who work with the HSE, and those who work for the HSE.

Internal Audit63-64 Adelaide Road Dublin 2 Tel: 01 775 2246 Email: [email protected] Director: Michael FlynnResponsible for ensuring that a comprehensive programme of audit work is carried out annually throughout the HSE.

Corporate Planning and Corporate PerformanceTel: 01 6352889Email: [email protected] National Director: Jane Carolan

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The HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme4th Floor89/94 Capel Street, Dublin 1Tel: 01 8146292 Fax: 01 8146282Email: [email protected] Website: www.crisispregnancy.ie

Acting Director: Dr Stephanie O’KeeffeThe HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme (formerly the Crisis Pregnancy Agency) is tasked with developing and implementing a national strategy to address the issue of Crisis Pregnancy in Ireland.A reduction in the number of crisis pregnancies by the provision of education, advice and contraceptive services.A reduction in the number of women with crisis pregnancies who opt for abortion by offering services and supports which make other options practical and more attractive.The provision of counselling services, medical services and such other health services in order to provide support, after crisis pregnancy, as may be deemed appropriate by the Agency.

National Haemophilia CouncilRoom 1, Dr. Steeven’s Hospital, Dublin 8Tel: 01 6352134Fax: 01 6200032Email: [email protected] Website: www.nationalhaemophiliacouncil.ie

Chairperson: Prof. John BonnarThe establishment of a National Haemophilia Council was approved by Government following the recommendations of the Lindsay Tribunal in 2001. The regulations placing the council on a statutory footing were signed by the Minister for Health and Children on July 22 2004. (S.I. No. 451 of 2004.) It advises and makes recommendations to the Minister for Health on all aspects of haemophilia, on its own initiative or at the Minister’s request.

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Chapter 17 Department of Children and Youth Affairs

The Department of Children and Youth Affairs was created in 2011. The statutory role of the department is to support the Minister in the formulation and evaluation of policies for children’s services. It focuses on harmonising policy issues that affect children in areas such as early childhood care and education, youth justice, child welfare and protection, children and young people’s participation, research on children and young people, youth work and cross cutting initiatives for children. It also has a role in the strategic planning of health services. This is carried out in conjunction with the Health Service Executive, voluntary service providers, Government departments and other interested parties.

OfficesHead OfficeDepartment of Children and Youth Affairs43-49 Mespil Road,Dublin 4Tel: 01 6473000Fax: 01 6473101E-mail: [email protected] Email protocol: [email protected]: www.dcya.ie

Childcare DirectorateDepartment of Children and Youth AffairsHawkins HouseDublin 2Tel: 01 6354000Fax: 01 6354045E-mail: [email protected]

Introduction

Department of Children and Youth Affairs

Child Welfare & Protection Policy

Unit 1

Secretary General:

Jim Breslin

Child Welfare and Protection Policy

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Child Welfare and Protection

Policy 3

Children’s Legislation Unit

Children’s Research

Childcare Directorate 2

Child Care Directorate 1

Business Support

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Communications

Early Childhood Education Policy

Children & Young People’s Strategy

Early Childhood Education Policy

Youth Affairs Unit

Irish Youth Justice Service

Irish Youth Justice Corporate &

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Irish Youth Justice Service Detention

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Irish Youth Justice Service

Community Programmes

Corporate Support 1

Corporate Support 2


Minister for ChildrenMinister for Children: Frances Fitzgerald TDAppointed: March 2011Political Party: Fine GaelContact details for the Minister’s Office:

Telephone: 01 6473000 (Department) 01 6473057(Private Office)01 6183771 (Dáil) Fax: 01 6473101Email: [email protected] Secretary: Evan HackettAdvisors: Marion Mannion; William Lavelle (part-time); Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (part-time)

Previous committee positions: Deputy Fitzgerald has served on various Dáil and Seanad committees including Justice, Health, the Committee on the Constitution, the National and Economic Social Forum, the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, Social Affairs and Health. Deputy Fitzgerald was also a member of the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children and co-authored several Oireachtas Committee reports. Deputy Fitzgerald recently co-founded the first ever Cross Party Group on Mental Health and worked closely with Amnesty International to help break down the stigmas associated with mental health issues. Deputy Fitzgerald was also a member of the committee on selection of Seanad Éireann, the committee on members’ interests in Seanad Éireann and the Seanad Éireann Committee on Procedure and Privileges.Previous party positions: Deputy Fitzgerald was spokesperson in Seanad Éireann on equality, opportunity and family affairs from 2001 to 2002 and on social, community and family affairs from 1999 to 2001. She was Fine Gael leader in the Seanad and spokesperson on health and children in October 2007. Previous political roles: Deputy Fitzgerald has served as vice-president of the Irish Council of the European Movement, as chairperson of the National Women’s Council, as a member of the Women’s Political Association and the Health Promotion Council and as a member of Dublin City Council, the Employment Equality Agency, Dublin Institute of Adult Education, Women’s Environmental Network and the Second Commission on the Status of Women. Deputy Fitzgerald was also Vice President of the European Women’s Lobby and Vice Chair of Europa Donna, the european breast cancer campaign.Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Fitzgerald was educated at University College, Dublin and

London School of Economics. She was a social worker and family therapist before entering politics.Electoral history: Deputy Fitzgerald was most recently elected to the Dáil for the Dublin Mid West constituency in February 2011. She was previously elected to the Dáil for the Dublin South East constituency in both 1992 and 1997 She was elected to the 23rd Seanad on the Labour Panel in 2007.


Fianna Fáil: Charlie McConalogue TDLeinster House Tel: 01 6183199Constituency: Donegal North EastEmail: [email protected]

Sinn Féin: Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin TD (Health and Children) Leinster House Tel: 01 6183005Constituency: Cavan-MonaghanEmail: caoimhghí[email protected]

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Oireachtas CommitteesJoint Committee on Health and ChildrenThis Committee – and the select Committees of Dáil and Seanad Eireann of which it is made – has the power to consider:

• Legislation proposed by the Department of Health and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs during the Committee stage;• Spending by these Departments; • Matters of policy for which each Minister is officially responsible; • Public affairs administered by the Department; • Policy issues arising from Value for Money and Policy Reviews conducted or commissioned by the Department; and • Statutory instruments and EU legislation.

Clerk to the CommitteePatricia DoranEmail: [email protected] Telephone: 01 6183147

Chairperson Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael)Tel: 01 6183380Email: [email protected]

Deputy Buttimer was first elected to the Séanad Eireann in 2007 and was Fine Gael spokesperson on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs in the 23rd Seanad. He was elected as a TD for the Cork South Central constituency in the 2011 general election. Deputy Buttimer is a secondary school teacher by profession and holds a Higher Diploma in Education from University College Cork.

Deputies:


Catherine Byrne Fine Gael


Ciara Conway Labour

Regina Doherty Fine Gael

Robert Dowds Labour

Peter Fitzpatrick Fine Gael

Seamus Healy United Left

Derek Keating Fine Gael

Billy Kelleher Fianna Fail

Eamonn Maloney Labour

Charlie McConalogue Fianna Fail


Denis Naughten Fine Gael

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin Sinn Féin

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John Crown Independent

David Cullinane Sinn Féin

John Gilroy Labour

Imelda Henry Fine Gael

Marc Mac Sharry Fianna Fáil

Jillian Van Turnhout Independent

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The DepartmentAppointed: June 2011Details for Secretary General’s OfficeTel: 01 6473047

Previous Positions: Prior to his appointment as Secretary General, Jim Breslin served as Assistant Secretary at the Department of Health and Children from 2008 with responsibility for Finance, Performance Evaluation, Resource Allocation, Research, Information and International Affairs. Other previous positions include National Director at Health Service Executive, Director of Planning & Commissioning at Eastern Regional Health Authority (2000-2004) and Assistant Principle at the Department of Health and Children (1993-2000). He holds master’s degrees in public administration from TCD and Harvard University.

Departmental Divisions• Child Welfare and Protection Policy Unit 1: - Principal Officer: Marie Kennedy - Assistant Principal: AnneMarie Kilkenny

• Child Welfare and Protection Policy Unit 2: - Principal Officer: Denis O’Sullivan - Assistant Principals: Paul Fay, Alan Savage

• Child Welfare and Protection Policy Unit 3: - Social Work Adviser: Michelle Clarke - Assistant Principal: Noreen Leahy

• Children’s Legislation Unit: - Principal Officer: Dolores Moran - Assistant Principals: Tadgh Delaney; Moira Griffin

• Business Support: Principal Officer: Michael O’Corcora Assistant Principals: Paul Memery; Peter Meany

• Childcare Directorate 1: Principal Officer: Mary McLoughlin Assistant Principal: Darragh Doherty

• Childcare Directorate 2: Principal Officer: Mary McLoughlin Assistant Principal: Mary Hogan

• Children’s Research: Head of Research: Sinéad Hanafin

• Children’s Participation & Communications: Head of Participation: Anne O’Donnell Youth Policy Adviser: Olive McGovern

• Children & Young People’s Strategy: Principal Officer: Catherine Hazlett Assistant Principals: Marie Dullea; Albert O’Donoghue

• Early Childhood Education Policy: Principal Officer: Catherine Hynes Assistant Principal: Teresa Ryan Early Years Specialist: Marese Duignan

• Youth Affairs Unit: Principal Officer: Mary McLoughlin Youth Work Assessor: Conor Rowley

• Irish Youth Justice Service - Corporate & Policy: Principal Officer: John Lohan Assistant Principals: Pauline Waters; Mary Rogerson Accountant: Jason McLoughlin

• Irish Youth Justice Service - Detention & Welfare: Principal Officer: Dan Kelleher Child Welfare Adviser: Tony O’Donovan Assistant Principals: Dolores Kavanage; Siobhán Young; Freida Delaney

• Irish Youth Justice Service - Community Programmes: Principal Officer: Ruairi Gogan Assistant Principal: Joe Gavin Head of Young Offender Programmes: Sean Redmond

• Corporate Support 1: Principal Officer: Moira O’Mara Assistant Principals: Gerard Hughes; Ger Banville

• Corporate Support 2: Principal Officer: Moira O’Mara Assistant Principal: Peter Hanrahan

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Agencies and Associated Bodies

Adoption Authority of Ireland (AAI)Shelbourne HouseShelbourne RoadDublin 4Tel: 01 6671438Fax: 01 6671438Email: [email protected]: www.aai.gov.ie

Chief Executive Officer: VacantThe Adoption Authority of Ireland is responsible for registering and supervising the Registered Adoption Societies and for maintaining the Adoption Societies Register. The Adoption Board is also responsible for granting declarations of eligibility and suitability to prospective adopters in advance of their adopting abroad and for maintaining the Register of Foreign Adoptions in which details of inter-country adoptions are entered.

Family Support Agency (FSA)4th Floor, St Stephen’s Green HouseEarlsfort TerraceDublin 2Tel: 01 6114100Fax: 01 6760824Email: [email protected]: www.fsa.ie

Chief Executive Officer: Pat BennettThe Family Support Agency was set up to provide support to families. The main support services are provided in the following ways:• Funding 107 Family Resource Centres around Ireland• Supporting organisations providing Marriage, Relationship, Child and Bereavement Counselling Services• A Family Mediation Service for couples going through a separation or divorce• Research relevant to families• Providing information important to families, particularly in relation to parenting• Advising the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs on family related matters

National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) 16/22 Green StreetDublin 7 Tel: 01 8738623 (Education Helpline: 1890 363 666) Fax: 01 8738799 Email: [email protected] Website: www.newb.ie

Chairperson: Cathal FlynnChief Executive Officer: Clare RyanThe National Educational Welfare Board (NEWB) was established in 2002 with the statutory function of ensuring that every child either attends a school or otherwise receives an education. The board has a key role in following up on children who do not attend school regularly and in situations where there are concerns about a child’s educational welfare.

Ombudsman for Children’s Office Millennium House 52/56 Great Strand St Dublin 1 Tel: 01 8656800 (FreePhone: 1800 202 040 or LoCall 1890 654 654) Fax: 01 8747333 Email: [email protected] Website: www.oco.ie Ombudsman for Children: Emily Logan Director: Colm KeenanThe Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) was established under the Ombudsman for Children Act, 2002. The role of the Ombudsman for Children is to promote and safeguard the rights and welfare of children and young people up to eighteen years of age. The Ombudsman for Children is independent of Government and other civil society actors and is accountable to the Oireachtas.

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The Irish Youth Justice ServiceDepartment of Children and Youth Affairs4th Floor43 Mespil RoadDublin 4Tel: 01 6473000Fax: 01 6473101Email: [email protected]

The Irish Youth Justice Service (IYJS) is an executive office of the Department of Justice and Equality. It is responsible for driving reform and bringing strategic direction to the development and delivery of services nationwide for young people aged under 18 years who find themselves in conflict with the law. The IYJS also funds organisations and projects (including Garda and Probation projects) providing these services, and is responsible for the management and development of children detention facilities .

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Chapter 18 Houses of the Oireachtas

The Oireachtas is Ireland’s national parliament. It was established under Article 15 of the 1937 Constitution and has the sole and exclusive power of making laws for the State. It is comprised of the President and two houses: a House of Representatives (the lower House) called Dáil Éireann and a Senate (the upper House) called Seanad Éireann.

Dáil ÉireannThe Dáil is made up of 166 members called Teachtaí Dála (TDs) or Deputies who are directly elected under the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote. Under Article 16.2.2 of the Constitution, there must be at least one TD for every 30,000 people and at most one TD for every 20,000 of the population. The Republic of Ireland is divided into 43 electoral areas known as constituencies, each of which returns a minimum of 3 and maximum of 5 TDs; under Article 16.2.4 the constituencies must be revised by the Oireachtas at least once every 12 years. Voting is by secret ballot, and every citizen of Ireland or of the United Kingdom who is resident in Ireland, has reached the age of eighteen, is registered to vote and is not disqualified by law from doing so has a constitutional right to vote in Dáil elections under Article 16.1.2. Elections to the Dáil must take place at least once every 5 years, although the House may be dissolved at any time at the Taoiseach’s request, subject to the discretion of the President in cases where the Taoiseach has lost the support of a majority in the Dáil. General Elections must take place within 30 days following the dissolution of the outgoing Dáil.

The chairperson of Dáil Éireann is known as the Ceann Comhairle. They are elected by the Dáil from among their number at the first session following a General Election. In order to protect the neutrality of the chair, Article 16.6 of the Constitution provides that, following the dissolution of the Dáil, the Ceann Comhairle shall be deemed to have been automatically re-elected to the lower House by their constituency at the ensuing General Election. The Ceann Comhairle is the sole judge of order in the Dáil Eireann, and although they do not vote on matters raised in the Dáil they have and must exercise a casting vote in the event of a tie. In addition, their functions include calling on members to speak, putting such questions to the Dáil as are required, supervising votes and declaring the results and maintaining order in the House generally. The Ceann Comhairle can in cases of great disorder suspend or adjourn the House. The current Ceann Comhairle is Sean Barrett and the current Leas Cheann Comhairle (deputy chairperson) is Michael Kitt.

Seanad ÉireannSeanad Éireann is the upper House of the Oireachtas. It has 60 members in total, 43 of whom are elected from 5 vocational panels of nominees (Administrative, Agricultural, Cultural and Educational, Industrial and Commercial, Labour) by incoming TDs, outgoing senators and all present local councillors (both county and borough). A further 11 members are appointed by the Taoiseach, with the remaining 6 being elected by the University of Dublin and the National University of Ireland (3 each). A General Election to Seanad Éireann must be held within 90 days of the dissolution of Dáil Éireann and voting is by secret postal ballot under the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote. The chairperson of Seanad Éireann is known as the Cathaoirleach, who is elected by the Senate at its first meeting following a General Election. Their functions are similar to those of the Ceann Comhairle, and, as is the case in Dáil Éireann, the Cathaoirleach exercises a casting vote in the event of an equality of votes.

Membership to the Dáil and the Seanad is regulated by Articles 16.1 and 18.2 of the Constitution. Every citizen who has reached the age of 21 years is eligible for membership, with certain exceptions (the President of Ireland, the Comptroller and Auditor General, judges, civil servants, local authority members, board members of State-sponsored bodies and fully-paid members of both the police and defence forces). Finally, under Article 15.14 no person may be member of both Houses of the Oireachtas simultaneously. If a person who enjoys membership of one House becomes a member of the other, they are automatically deemed to have vacated their first seat.

Offices Houses of the OireachtasLeinster House Kildare StreetDublin 2IrelandTelephone: 01 6183000Email: [email protected] Website: www.oireachtas.ie

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Ceann Comhairle: Sean Barrett TDAppointed: March 2011Contact details: Tel: 01 6183343Fax: 01 6184100Email: [email protected]

Website: http://ceanncomhairle.oireachtas.ie

Previous ministries: Deputy Barrett was Minister of State at the Departments of the Taoiseach and Defence from 1982 to 1986. Between 1986 and 1987, he was Minister of State at the Department of Education and Leader of the House with responsibility for Dáil reform. He served as Minister for Defence and Minister for the Marine from 1995 until 1997.Previous committee memberships: Deputy Barrett was a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on Finance and the Public Service and of the Dáil committee on procedure and privileges. Deputy Barrett served as chairperson of the joint Oireachtas committee on climate change and energy security. He was most recently a member of the joint Oireachtas committee on European Affairs and a member of the Dáil committee on Procedure and privileges in the 30th Dáil.Previous party positions: Deputy Barrett was spokesperson for Justice from 1987 to 1989, for Industry and Commerce from 1989 to 1991, for Defence and the Marine from 1993 to 1994 and

again in 1995 to 1997. He was spokesperson on the Environment in 1994. He was Fine Gael Chief Whip from 1997 to 2002 and was most recently spokesperson on Foreign Affairs in the 30th Dáil. Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Barrett served as a member of Dublin City Council from 1974 to 1982, and was Chairperson of the council from 1981 to 1982. He was also the president of the EU Council of Ministers during Ireland’s presidency from June to December 1996.Education/Previous occupation: He was educated at Rathmines College of Commerce, Dublin.Electoral history: After coming out of retirement, Deputy Barrett was elected to the Dáil in the February 2011 general election. He was first elected in 1981 and returned at every subsequent election until he retired in 2002.

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• Presiding over business and proceedings of Dáil Éireann• Calling on deputies to speak• Putting such questions to the House as are required• Supervising divisions and declaring results• Maintaining general order in the House • Accepting motions for closure of a debate• Preparation of Order Papers• Discretionary power to shorten the formal notice required for motions and

amendments• Ensuring fair representation of all parties (including independent

members) in the Dáil• Exercising a casting vote in the case of an equality of votes• Formal opening of each day’s sitting• Representation of Dáil Éireann at international meetings of

parliamentarians (Inter Parliamentary Union), Conferences of Speakers of Parliament, the Council of Europe and the European Parliament and is the official host to visiting parliamentary delegations.

• Official host to visiting parliamentary delegations• Member of Presidential Commission and Council of State• Chairperson of the Committee of Procedure and Privileges• Chairperson of the Commission for Public Service Appointments and of

Comhairle na Míre Gaile.• Member of the Appeal Board, which is established to decide on any doubt,

dispute or question that may arise in connection with the Register of Political Parties, and of the Appeal Board which is established to hear and decide appeals from decisions of the Seanad Returning Officer under the Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act, 1947.


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Leas-Cheann Comhairle: Michael KittAppointed: April 2011Tel: 01 7002191Fax: 01 6184111Email: [email protected]

Website: www.michaelkitt.com

Previous ministries: Deputy Kitt was Minister of State at the Department of An Taoiseach from 1991 to 1992. He also served as Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2008 and Minister of State at the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government from 2008 to 2009.Previous committee memberships: Deputy Kitt was a member joint Oireachtas committees on Foreign Affairs; Agriculture, Food and the Marine; and Education and Science.Previous party positions: Deputy Kitt was spokesperson on Emigration and the Developing World from 1995 to 1997. Previous Seanad and other political roles: Deputy Kitt was a Senator from 1977 to 1981. He was a Member of Galway County Council from 1975 to 1991 and served as Chairman from 1985 to 1986. He also served as Vice-Chairman of Galway-Mayo Regional Development Board from 1985 to 1986.

Electoral history: Deputy Kitt was first elected to the Dáil for the Galway North East constituency in the 1975 by-election caused by the death of his father Michael F. Kitt. He lost the seat (then Galway East) in 1977 but was re-elected in 1981 and at each subsequent election until 2002 when he lost the Dáil election. During this year, he also failed in an attempt to secure a Seanad seat through the Administrative Panel. However, he secured a Seanad seat through his appointment by the Taoiseach. He ran successfully in the 2007 Dáil election for the Galway East constituency and was re-elected in 2011. Education/Previous occupation: Deputy Kitt was previously a teacher prior to entering politics.


• Deputies in the absence of Ceann Comhairle in ensuring that standing orders are complied with, presiding over debates and maintaining order in the House

• In the official absence of the Ceann Comhairle acting as Chairperson of the Dáil Committee on Procedure and Privileges and the executive of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

• In the official absence of the Ceann Comhairle acting as a member of the Presidential Commission, the Presidents (Speakers) of Parliament of the E.U. and the Appeal Boards (see Ceann Comhairle profile above)

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• Performs those functions in Seanad Éireann as are generally performed by the Ceann Comhairle in Dáil Éireann (see above)

• Co-hosting (with the Ceann Comhairle) visits of foreign parliamentary delegations to Ireland

• Representation of Seanad Éireann at international meetings of parliamentarians, Conferences of Speakers of Parliament, the Council of Europe and the European Parliament

• Member of Presidential Commission and the Council of State• Member of the Appeal Board which is established to decide on

any doubt, dispute or question which may arise in connection with the Register of Political Parties, and of the Appeal Board which is established to hear and decide appeals from decisions of the Seanad Returning Officer under the Seanad Electoral (Panel Members) Act, 1947.

Cathaoirleach: Paddy BurkeAppointed: May 2011Tel: 01 6183570Email: [email protected]: www.cathaoirleach.oireachtas.ie

Previous Seanad and other political roles: Senator Burke has been a member of the Seanad (Agriculture Panel) since 1993 and was elected Leas Cathaoirleach in 2002 and re-elected in 2007. He was a member of the Mayo County Council from 1979 until 2003. He was previously Fine Gael Seanad Spokesperson on Defence and Emigrant Affairs. He is a member of Mayo-Galway Development Organisation and, since 1991 has been a member of LAMA.Education: He was educated at Rockwell Agriculture College, Co. Tipperary and Franciscan Brothers Agriculture College, Mount Bellew, Co Galway.

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Appointed: June 2011Tel: 01 6183079Email: Leas-Cathaoirleach@

oireachtas.ie Previous Seanad and other political roles: Denis O’Donovan was first appointed to the Seanad in 1989 as a Taoiseach’s nominee. He was elected to the Seanad in 1993, 1997 and in 2007. He was also a member of Dáil Éireann between 2002-2007, where he was chairman of the Oireachteas Constitution Committee.Education: He graduated from University College Cork in Law (Hons) in 1975.

Leas Cathaoirleach

The Houses of the Oireachtas Commission was established under the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003, and came into existence on January 1 2004. The Act provided for a handover of the authority and responsibility for provision of services to the Houses of the Oireachtas and their Committees from the ultimate authority of the Minister for Finance to the Commission, which is comprised of 11 members.

Membership:• Ceann Comhairle (ex officio) (chair)• Cathaoirleach (ex officio) (Vice-Chair)• Clerk of the Dáil (ex officio)• Nominee appointed by Minister for Finance• There will also be 6 members appointed by the House

of the Oireachtas

Officers:• Clerk of the Dáil • Clerk Assistant of the Dáil• Clerk of the Seanad• Clerk Assistant of the Seanad

Directors: • Director of House Services • Director of Corporate and Members’ Services• Director of Library and Research • Director of Committees, Information and

Communications

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission


• Provide for the running of the Houses of the Oireachtas and administration and management of the Office of the Houses of the Oireachtas

• Oversee ongoing expenditure• Pay all salaries and expenses and keep and publish accounts• Exercise staff functions (via the Secretary General)• Produce strategic plans, annual reports, estimates and information• Exercise certain functions of the Minister for Finance regarding secretarial

assistance for parliamentary parties• Exercise certain legal functions (including participation in proceedings where

necessary and arranging for legal advice)

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(i) Select Committee on Members’ Interests of Dáil Éireann Under the Ethics in Public Office Acts 1995 and 2007, the committee on Members’ Interests in Dáil Éireann is charged with producing guidelines each year as to what members of the Dáil must declare in their interests. The committee also has an investigatory role in the event of a complaint being made against a TD by another member of the Oireachtas or by a member of the public.

Clerk to the Committee: John HamiltonEmail: [email protected]: 01 6183850

Chairperson: Thomas Pringle TD (Independent)Tel: 01 6183038Email: [email protected] Pringle is an independent

TD and was elected to the Dáil for the Donegal South West constituency in the 2011 general election, He was previously a member of Donegal County Council having been elected as an independent councillor in 1999 and then as a Sinn Féin candidate in 2004. He left Sinn Féin in 2007 and retained his seat as an independent in 2009.

(ii) Joint Administration Committee The Joint Administration Committee represents the views of members on the provision of services for and by the Houses generally and makes recommendations thereon to the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission.

Clerk to the CommitteeAnne-Marie FahyEmail: [email protected]: 01 6183045

Chairperson Tom Hayes TD (Fine Gael)Tel: 01 6183168Email: [email protected]

Deputy Hayes was elected as Chairperson of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party in 2002 and served until 2010. He was the sole opposition TD in Tipperary South in the 30th Dáil and he also sat on the committee for the Constitution, the Committee for procedures and privileges and the Oireachtas Commission. He also served as the Fine Gael Deputy spokesperson on the environment, with special responsibility for heritage and rural affairs in the 29th Dáil. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 2001 to represent Tipperary South. In 1997 he became a member of Seanad Éireann and acted as Fine Gael Seanad spokesperson on agriculture.

Deputies:

John Browne Fianna Fáil




Jack Wall Labour

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John Browne Fianna Fáil


Eric Byrne Labour





Tom Hayes Fine Gael

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Senators:

Terry Brennan

Paul Coghlan

Marie Moloney

Diarmuid Wilson

(iii) Dáil Éireann Committee on Procedure and PrivilegesThe Dáil Éireann Committee on Procedure and Privileges considers matters of procedure generally and recommends any additions or amendments to the Standing Orders. The Committee may also consider and report to the House as to Members’ privileges.

Clerk to the Committee: Martin GrovesEmail: [email protected]: 01 6183740


Paul Kehoe Fine Gael

Seamus Kirk Fianna Fail

John Lyons Labour

Anne Phelan Labour

John Paul Phelan Fine Gael


Jack Wall Labour

Chairperson Sean Barrett TD (Fine Gael)Tel: 01 2845333Fax: 01 6184100Email: [email protected]

(See profile as Ceann Comhairle above)

(iv) Dáil Éireann Committee of Public AccountsThe Public Accounts Committee is responsible for examining and reporting on spending by Government Departments. Its chairperson is traditionally drawn from the opposition parties, although this practice has no basis in statute. A significant portion of its work consists of examining reports on expenditure and efficiency by the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Clerk to the Committee: Ted McEneryEmail: [email protected]: 01 6183867

Chairperson John McGuiness TD (Fianna Fáil)Tel: 01 6183137Email:

Deputies:

Paul J. Connaughton Fine GaelJohn Deasy Fine GaelPaschal Donohoe Fine GaelAnne Ferris LabourSimon Harris Fine GaelMichael McCarthy LabourMary Lou McDonald Sinn FéinMichael McGrath Fianna FailSean Fleming Fianna FáilEoghan Murphy Fine GaelDerek Nolan LabourKieran O’Donnell Fine GaelShane Ross Independent

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Deputy McGuiness has represented the Carlow-Kilkenny constituency since he was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 1997. He is also currently serving as opposition spokesperson on the small business regulatory framework. He served as Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment with special responsibility for Trade and Commerce from June 2007 until April 2009. He was vice-chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee in the 29th Dáil and a member of the Joint Oireachtas committees for European Affairs, enterprise and small business, justice and women’s rights in the 28th Dáil.

(v) Joint Committee on Investigations, Oversight and PetitionsThe Joint Committee on Investigations, Oversight and Petitions considers the design of a petitions system for the Houses of the Oireachtas and also the role and remit of the Joint Committee having regard to the Programme for Government. The Committee may report back to the House with recommendations including revised Orders of Reference.

Clerk to the Committee: Anne-Marie FahyEmail: [email protected]: 01 6183045

Chairperson Peader Tóibín TD (Sinn Féin) Tel: 01 6183518Email: [email protected]

Peadar Tóibín is the Sinn Féin TD for Meath West and was elected to the Dáil in February 2011. He was co-opted onto the Navan Town council in November 2007, and held that seat at the 2009 local elections. He has a degree in Economics and Politics from UCD and a Postgraduate qualification in Enterprise from the Michael Smurfit School of Business, UCD.

Deputies:Dara Calleary Fianna FáilJoan Collins United Left AllianceMichael Conaghan LabourAlan Farrell Fine GaelCharles Flanagan Fine GaelFine GaelMichael Healy-Rae IndependentPeter Mathews Fine Gael Fine GaelMichael McCarthy LabourCharlie McConalogue Fianna FáilFianna FáilMichelle Mulherin Fine GaelFine GaelDerek Nolan LabourAengus Ó Snodaigh Sinn FéinJohn Paul Phelan Fine GaelPeadar Tóibín Sinn FéinSinn FéinMick Wallace Independent

Senators:Trevor Ó ClochartaighJimmy HarteTony MulcahyDarragh O’BrienSusan O Keeffe

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ADAMS, GerryParty: Sinn Féin

Constituency: Louth

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BANNON, JamesParty: Fine Gael

Constituency: Longford-Westmeath



BARRETT, SeanParty: Fine Gael

Constituency: Dún Laoghaire



BARRY, Tom Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Cork East



BOYD BARRETT, Richard Party: United Left Alliance




BREEN, Pat Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Clare



BROUGHAN, Tommy Party: Independent

Labour Constituency: Dublin North East



BROWNE, John Party: Fianna Fáil

Constituency: Wexford



BRUTON, Richard Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Dublin North Central



BURTON, Joan Party: Labour

Constituency: Dublin West



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BUTLER, Ray Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Meath West



BUTTIMER, Jerry Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Cork South Central



BYRNE, Catherine Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Dublin South Central



BYRNE, Eric Party: Labour




CALLEARY, Dara Party: Fianna Fáil

Constituency: Mayo



CANNON, Ciaran Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Galway East



CAREY, JoeParty: Fine Gael

Constituency: Clare



COFFEY, Paudie Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Waterford



COLLINS, Áine Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Cork North West



COLLINS, Joan Party: United Left Alliance





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COLLINS, Niall Party: Fianna Fáil

Constituency: Limerick



COLREAVY, Michael Party: Sinn Féin

Constituency: Sligo-North Leitrim



CONAGHAN, Michael Party: Labour




CONLAN, Seán Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Cavan Monaghan



CONNAUGHTON, Paul JParty: Fine Gael




CONWAY, Ciara Party: Labour




COONAN, NoelParty: Fine Gael

Constituency: Tipperary North



CORCORAN KENNEDY, Marcella Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Laois Offaly



COSTELLO, Joe Party: Labour

Constituency: Dublin Central



COVENEY, Simon Party: Fine Gael





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COWEN, Barry Party: Fianna Fáil

Constituency: Laois-Offaly



CREED, Michael Party: Fine Gael




CREIGHTON, Lucinda Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Dublin South East



CROWE, Seán Party: Sinn Féin

Constituency: Dublin South West



DALY, ClareParty: United Left Alliance

Constituency: Dublin North



DALY, Jim Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Cork South West



DEASY, John Party: Fine Gael




DEENIHAN, Jimmy Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Kerry North-W Limerick



DEERING, Pat Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Carlow Kilkenny



DOHERTY, Pearse Party: Sinn Féin

Constituency: Donegal South West




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DOHERTY, Regina Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Meath East



DONNELLY, Stephen Party: Independent

Constituency: Wicklow



DONOHUE, PaschalParty: Fine Gael




DOOLEY, Timmy Party: Fianna Fáil

Constituency: Clare



DOWDS, Robert Party: Labour

Constituency: Dublin-Mid West



DOYLE, Andrew Party: Fine Gael




DURKAN, Bernard Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Kildare North



ELLIS, Dessie Party: Sinn Féin

Constituency: Dublin North West



ENGLISH, Damien Party: Fine Gael




FARRELL, AlanParty: Fine Gael





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FEIGHAN, FrankParty: Fine Gael

Constituency: Roscommon South Leitrim



FERRIS, Anne Party: Labour




FERRIS, Martin Party: Sinn Féin

Constituency: Kerry North-West Limerick



FITZGERALD, Frances Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Dublin Mid-West



FITZPATRICK, Peter Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Louth



FLANAGAN, Charles Party: Fine Gael




FLANAGAN, Luke ‘Ming’ Party: Independent

Constituency: Roscommon-S Leitrim



FLANAGAN, Terence Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Dublin North East



FLEMING, Sean Party: Fianna Fáil




FLEMING, Tom Party: Independent

Constituency: Kerry South




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GILMORE, Eamon Party: Labour




GREALISH, Noel Party: Independent

Constituency: Galway West



GRIFFIN, Brendan Party: Fine Gael




HALLIGAN, John Party: Independent




HANNIGAN, Dominic Party: Labour




HARRINGTON, Noel Party: Fine Gael




HARRIS, Simon Party: Fine Gael




HAYES, Brian Party: Fine Gael




HAYES, Tom Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Tipperary South



HEALY, Séamus Party: Independent





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HEALY RAE, MichaelParty: Independent




HEYDON, Martin Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Kildare South



HIGGINS, Joe Party: United Left Alliance




HOGAN, PhilParty: Fine Gael




HOWLIN, Brendan Party: Labour




HUMPHREYS, Heather Party: Fine Gael




HUMPHREYS, Kevin Party: Labour




KEATING, Derek Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Dublin Mid West



KEAVENEY, Colm Party: Labour




KEHOE, Paul Party: Fine Gael





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KELLEHER, Billy Party: Fianna Fáil

Constituency: Cork North Central



KELLY, Alan Party: Labour




KENNY, Enda Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Mayo



KENNY, Seán Party: Labour

Constituency: Dublin North East



KIRK, Seamus Party: Fianna Fáil

Constituency: Louth



KITT, Michael Party: Fianna Fáil




KYNE, SeánParty: Fine Gael




LAWLOR, Anthony Party: Fine Gael




LOWRY, Michael Party: Independent




LYNCH, Ciarán Party: Labour





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LYNCH, Kathleen Party: Labour




LYONS, John Party: Labour

Constituency: Dublin North West



MacLOCHLAIN, Pádraig Party: Sinn Féin

Constituency: Donegal North East



MALONEY, Eamonn Party: Labour




MARTIN, Micheál Party: Fianna Fáil




MATHEWS, Peter Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Dublin South



McCARTHY, Michael Party: Labour




McCONALOGUE, Charlie Party: Fianna Fáil

Constituency: Donegal North East



McDONALD, Mary Lou Party: Sinn Féin




McENTEE, Shane Party: Fine Gael





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McFADDEN, Nicky Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Longford Westmeath



McGINLEY, Dinny Party: Fine Gael




McGRATH, FinianParty: Independent




McGRATH, Mattie Party: Independent




McGRATH, Michael Party: Fianna Fáil

Constituency: Cork South-Central



McGUINNESS, John Party: Fianna Fáil




McHUGH, Joe Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Donegal North-East



McLELLAN, Sandra Party: Sinn Féin




McLOUGHLIN, Tony Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Sligo/North Leitrim



McNAMARA, Michael Party: Labour

Constituency: Clare




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MITCHELL O’CONNOR, Mary Party: Fine Gael




MITCHELL, Olivia Party: Fine Gael




MOYNIHAN, Michael Party: Fianna Fáil




MULHERIN, Michelle Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Mayo



MURPHY, Catherine Party: Independent




MURPHY, Dara Party: Fine Gael




MURPHY, Eoghan Party: Fine Gael




NASH, Gerald Party: Labour

Constituency: Louth



NAUGHTEN, Denis Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Roscommon-S Leitrim



NEVILLE, Dan Party: Fine Gael





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NOLAN, DerekParty: Labour




NOONAN, Michael Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Limerick City



NULTY, PatrickParty: Labour




Ó CAOLÁIN, Caoimhghín Party: Sinn Féin

Constituency: Cavan-Monaghan


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Ó CUÍV, Éamon Party: Fianna Fáil




Ó FEARGHAÍL, Seán Party: Fianna Fáil




Ó RÍORDÁIN, AodhánParty: Labour




Ó SNODAIGH, Aengus Party: Sinn Féin




O’BRIEN, Jonathan Party: Sinn Féin




O’DEA, Willie Party: Fianna Fáil





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O’DONNELL, Kieran Party: Fine Gael




O’DONOVAN, Patrick Party: Fine Gael




O’DOWD, Fergus Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Louth



O’MAHONY, John Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Mayo



O’REILLY, Joe Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Cavan-Monaghan



O’SULLIVAN, Jan Party: Labour




O’SULLIVAN, Maureen Party: Independent




PENROSE, Willie Party: Labour




PERRY, John Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Sligo/North Leitrim



PHELAN, Ann Party: Labour





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PHELAN, John Paul Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Carlow-Kilkenny



PRINGLE, Thomas Party: Independent




QUINN, Ruairí Party: Labour




RABBITTE, Pat Party: Labour




REILLY, James Party: Fine Gael




RING, Michael Party: Fine Gael

Constituency: Mayo



ROSS, Shane Party: Independent




RYAN, Brendan Party: Labour




SHATTER, Alan Party: Fine Gael




SHERLOCK, Seán Party: Labour





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SHORTALL, Róisín Party: Labour

Constituency: Dublin North-West



SMITH, Brendan Party: Fianna Fáil




SPRING, Arthur Party: Labour

Constituency: Kerry North-W Limerick



STAGG, Emmet Party: Labour




STANLEY, BrianParty: Sinn Féin

Constituency: Laois-Offaly



STANTON, David Party: Fine Gael




TIMMINS, Billy Party: Fine Gael




TÓIBÍN, PeadarParty: Sinn Féin




TROY, Robert Party: Fianna Fáil




TUFFY, Joanna Party: Labour

Constituency: Dublin Mid West




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TWOMEY, Liam Party: Fine Gael




VARADKAR, Leo Party: Fine Gael




WALL, Jack Party: Labour




WALLACE, Mick Party: Independent




WALSH, Brian Party: Fine Gael




WHITE, Alex Party: Labour




Members of the 24th Seanad BACIK, IvanaPanel: Trinity College



BARRETT, SeanPanel: Trinity College



BRADFORD, PaulPanel: Agricultural



BRENNAN, TerryPanel: Labour



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BURKE, PaddyPanel: Agricultural



BYRNE, ThomasPanel: Cultural and Educational



CLUNE, DeirdrePanel: Cultural and Educational



COGHLAN, EAMONNPanel: Nominated by the Taoiseach



COGHLAN, PaulPanel: Industrial and Commercial



COMISKEY, MichaelPanel: Agricultural



CONWAY, Martin Panel: Administrative



CROWN, JohnPanel: National University of Ireland



CULLINANE, DavidPanel: Labour



CUMMINS, MauricePanel: Labour



DALY, Mark Panel: Administrative



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DARCY, JimPanel: Nominated by the Taoiseach



DARCY, Michael Panel: Administrative



GILROY, JohnPanel: Cultural and Educational



HARTE, JimmyPanel: Industrial and Commercial



HEALY-EAMES, FidelmaPanel: Labour



HAYDEN, AideenPanel: Nominated by the Taoiseach



HEFFERNAN, JamesPanel: Agricultural



HENRY, ImeldaPanel: Industrial and Commercial



HIGGINS, LorrainePanel: Nominated by the Taoiseach



KEANE, CáitPanel: Labour



KELLY, JohnPanel: Administrative



LANDY, DenisPanel: Administrative



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MAC CONGHAIL, FiachPanel: Nominated by the Taoiseach



MACSHARRY, MarcPanel: Industrial and Commercial



MCALEESE, MARTINPanel: Nominated by the Taoiseach



MOLONEY, MariePanel: Labour



MOONEY, PaschalPanel: Agricultural



MORAN, MaryPanel: Nominated by the Taoiseach



MULCAHY, TonyPanel: Labour



MULLEN, RonanPanel: National University of Ireland



MULLINS, MichaelPanel: Cultural and Educational



NOONE, CatherinePanel: Industrial and Commercial



NORRIS, DavidPanel: Trinity College



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O’BRIEN, Mary AnnPanel: Nominated by the Taoiseach



O’CLOCHARTAIGH, TrevorPanel: Agricultural



O’DOMHNAILL, BrianPanel: Agricultural



O’DONNELL, Marie-LouisePanel: Nominated by the Taoiseach



O’DONOVAN, DenisPanel: Agricultural



O’KEEFFE, SusanPanel: Agricultural



O’MURCHU, LabhrasPanel: Cultural and Educational



O’NEILL, PatPanel: Agricultural



O’SULLIVAN, NedPanel: Labour



POWER, AverilPanel: Industrial and Commercial



QUINN, FeArgalPanel: National University of Ireland



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SHEAHAN, TomPanel: Administrative



VAN TURNHOUT, JillianPanel: Nominated by the Taoiseach



WALSH, JimPanel: Agricultural



WHELAN, JohnPanel: Labour



WHITE, Mary Panel: Industrial and Commercial



WILSON, Diarmuid Panel: Administrative



Zappone, KatherinePanel: Nominated by the Taoiseach



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Chapter 19 Office of the Attorney General

“The Mission of the Office of the Attorney General is to provide the highest standard of professional legal services to Government, departments and offices”


• Legal advisor to the Government • Provides legal representation of the Government and ministers • Provides legal advice to each Government department • Asserts or protects public rights• Has certain prosecution functions (e.g. under Fisheries (Amendment) Act

1978)• Decides on the endorsement of warrants under the Extradition Acts • Leader of the bar• Legislative drafting, advises the Government Legislation Committee and client departments (though the Parliamentary Counsel) • Provides litigation, conveyancing and other transactional services (through the Chief State Solicitor’s Office)

Maire Whelan SC

Office of the Attorney GeneralOffice of the Attorney GeneralGovernment BuildingsUpper Merrion StreetDublin 2Tel: 01 6314000Fax: 01 6761806Email: [email protected] Website: www.attorneygeneral.ie Attorney General: Maire Whelan SCDirector General: Liam O’DalyDeputy Director General: Chris O’TooleChief Parliamentary Counsel: Deirbhle MurphyChief State Solicitor’s Office:Osmond HouseLittle Ship StreetDublin 8Tel: 01 4176100Fax: 01 4176299Email: [email protected] Website: www.csso.gov.ie Chief State Solicitor: David J. O’HaganAssistant Chief State Solicitors: Brian Byrne; Paul Fleming; Eleanor McPhillips; Owen Wilson Head of Administration: Michael Fallon


The Attorney General is the chief legal advisor to the Government. They areHe or she is appointed by the President of Ireland on the nomination of the Taoiseach. The Office of the Attorney General is made up of three different offices: the Attorney General’s Office (containing the Advisory Counsel to the Attorney General), the Office of Parliamentary Counsel to the Government and the Chief State Solicitor’s Office. The Attorney General cannot be a member of the Government; however, they may be a member of the Oireachtas, although in practice this is usually not the case.

HistoryPrior to 1922, the principal law officers in Ireland were the Attorney General for Ireland and the Solicitor General for Ireland. Section 6 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 provided that the powers and functions of these two offices, in addition to the powers and functions of the Chief State Solicitor, local State solicitors, the Law Adviser to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Parliamentary Draftsman were to be vested in the Attorney General of Saorstát Éireann. The Constitutional Office of the Attorney General was established by Article 30.1 of the 1937 Constitution of Ireland, which provides that:

“There shall be an Attorney General who shall be the adviser of the Government in matters of law and legal opinion, and shall exercise and perform all such powers, functions and duties as are conferred or imposed on him by this Constitution or by law.”

There have been 30 Attorneys General of the Office since 1922, some of whom have served more than one term in office. The current Attorney General, Maire Whelan SC, was appointed in March 2011.

FunctionsThe Attorney General advises the Government on all legal and constitutional issues which arise prior to or at cabinet meetings. They are also responsible for providing legal advice to each Government department and to certain public bodies. In addition, Section 6 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 charges the Attorney General with responsibility for “the assertion or protection of public rights”. In carrying out this role the Attorney General may take a case seeking to have the law (particularly the Constitution) enforced. Prior to the Prosecution of Offences Act 1974, the prosecution of all non-summary offences was also the responsibility of the Attorney General. However, the Act saw

the transfer of responsibility for the majority of such prosecutions to the newly-created office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, although the Attorney General continues to retain certain prosecution functions.

In cases before the Courts where the constitutionality of legislation is challenged by virtue of Article 26 of the Constitution or otherwise the Attorney General is always the defendant

Advisory CounselsThe Attorney General’s Office contains the Advisory Counsels to the Attorney General, who assist the Attorney General in performing their powers, functions and duties through the direction of litigation and the provision of advice to both the Attorney General and the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to the Government. The latter is responsible for the drafting of legislation and for providing advice to the Government Legislation Committee and client departments, and also has responsibility in the area of statute law revision and consolidation. The Chief State Solicitor’s Office contains the solicitors who represent the Attorney General and the State in litigation, and also provides certain non-litigation-based services including advisory and conveyancing services.

The current Attorney General, Maire Whelan SC, was appointed by President Mary McAleese on March 9 2011. She was educated at University College Galway (B.A., LL.B) and received a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) from King’s College, London. She also holds a diploma in international relations. She was called to the Bar of Ireland in 1985 and was appointed Senior Counsel in 2005. She was also chairperson of the Free Legal Advice Centres (Flac), finance secretary of the Labour Party; and a member of the Property Registration Authority.

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Chapter 20 The European Union

The European Union (EU) is the political and economic union of 27 European member states. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht, 1993. Its origin lies in post-war Franco-German co-operation, which was the brainchild of Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman, amongst others. It grew from the European Coal and Steel Community which was established between France, West Germany, the Benelux countries and Italy in 1951. A political organisation then developed on the foundations of economic co-operation.

The European organisation was called the European Economic Community (EEC) between 1957 and 1967 and the European Community (EC) between 1967 and 1993. Ireland joined the EEC in 1973 in addition to Great Britain and Denmark.

The EU has three areas of responsibility, referred to as its three pillars. They are the political organisation of the European Union, formerly the European Community, the Common Foreign and Security Policy and Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters.

The EU contains five institutions: the Council of the European Union, European Commission, European Parliament, European Court of Justice and the European Court of Auditors.

Introduction

The Council The Council is the main decision-making body of the European Union The ministers of the Member States meet within the Council of the European Union. Depending on the issue on the agenda, each country will be represented by the minister responsible for that subject for example, foreign affairs, finance, social affairs, transport, agriculture, etc.

The Presidency of the Council is held for two and a half years with the possibility of re-election once. Election is by qualified majority voting. The former Prime Minister of Belgium Herman Van Rompuy is the current President of the Council.

General Affairs At its sessions on General Affairs, the Council deals with dossiers that affect more than one of the Union’s policies, such as negotiations on EU enlargement, preparation of the Union’s multi-annual budgetary perspective or institutional and administrative issues.It co-ordinates preparation for and follow-up to meetings of the European Council.It also exercises a role in co-ordinating work on different policy areas carried out by the Council’s other configurations, and handles any dossier entrusted to it by the European Council.

Foreign Affairs (Foraff)The Foreign Affairs Council is composed of the EU Member State Ministers responsible for Foreign Affairs, Defence and Development. The Foreign

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• To promote and protect democracy and universal rights in Europe and around the world.

• To strengthen Europe’s economy and to promote solidarity around Europe by working in partnership with national, regional and local government.

• To make it easy for Europe’s citizens to live and work throughout the Union.

• To promote equality and tolerance of diversity in Europe.• To promote and facilitate co-operation between Europeans, at individual,

local, regional and national level, and in both the public and private sectors.

• To protect Europe’s environment and combat climate change.• To help Europe benefit economically and socially from globalisation.• To ensure that Europe’s voice is heard in the world.• To listen to its citizens, be accountable to them and work for them in a

transparent and decentralised way.• To maintain the economic and political union that is the European Union• A common foreign and security policy• Police and judicial co-operation in criminal matters • Legislation passed on to the member states through directives,

regulations and decisions• Providing a recourse to European courts for justice relating to the EU or

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Affairs Council meets formally once a month and deals with matters including foreign policy and trade, security issues, defence and development policy.

The formation of the Foreign Affairs Council was established by the Treaty of Lisbon. Until 1 December 2009, the Council formed part of the General Affairs and External Relations Council, which was chaired by the rotating Presidency of the EU. With the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, the function of High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy was significantly modified and extended. Under the Treaty, the High Representative chairs the meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council, except when it is dealing with commercial policy issues, in which case, the rotating Presidency takes over the chair.The Foreign Affairs Council is chaired by the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton.

Economic and Financial Affairs (Ecofin)The Economic and Financial Affairs Council is, together with the Agriculture Council and the General Affairs Council, one of the oldest configurations of the Council. It is commonly known as the Ecofin Council, or simply “Ecofin” and is composed of the Economics and Finance Ministers of the Member States, as well as Budget Ministers when budgetary issues are discussed. It meets once a month. It meets once a month.

Cooperation in the fields of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) The Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council brings together Justice ministers and Interior ministers about once every two months to discuss the development and implementation of cooperation and common policies in this sector.

Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs (EPSCO) The Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) is composed of employment, social protection, consumer protection, health and equal opportunities ministers, who meet around four times a year.

Competitiveness (internal market, industry, research and space) The creation of the Competitiveness Council in June 2002, through the merging of three previous configurations (Internal Market, Industry and Research) was a response to the perceived need for a more coherent and better co-ordinated handling of these matters related to the European Union’s competitiveness. Depending on the items on the agenda, this Council is composed of European affairs ministers, industry ministers, research ministers, etc. it meets about five or six times a year.

Transport, Telecommunications and EnergySince June 2002 these three policies have been placed under the sole responsibility of a single Council configuration, which meets approximately every two months. The composition of the Council varies according to the items on the agenda, for example, transport, telecommunications or energy.

Agriculture and FisheriesThe Agriculture and Fisheries Council is, together with the General Affairs and External Relations Council and the Ecofin Council, one of the Council’s oldest configurations. It brings together once a month the ministers for agriculture and fisheries and the European commissioners responsible for agriculture and rural development, fisheries and maritime affairs, as well as consumer health and protection.

EnvironmentThe Environment Council is composed of environment ministers who meet about four times a year. It decides by qualified majority in co-decision with the European Parliament.

Education, Youth, Culture and SportThe Education, Youth and Culture (EYC) Council brings together education, culture, youth and communication Ministers around three or four times a year. It usually adopts its decisions by a qualified majority (apart from on cultural affairs, where it acts unanimously) and in codecision with the European Parliament.


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High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton (United Kingdom) Eneko Landaburu

Competition Joaquín Almunia (Spain) Alexander Italianer

Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Viviane Reding (Luxembourg) Francoise le Bail

Transport Siim Kallas (Estonia) Matthias Ruete

Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes (Netherlands) Robert Madelin

Inter-Institutional Relations and Administration Maros Sefcovic (Slovakia) Robert-Jan Smits

Industry and Entrepreneurship Antonio Tajani (Italy) Heinz Zourek

Taxation and Customs Union, Audit and Anti-Fraud Algirdas Semeta (Lithuania) Walter Deffaa

Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Maria Damanaki (Greece) Fokion Fotiadis

Home Affairs Cecilia Malmstrom Jonathan Faull

Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn (Finland) Marco Buti

Energy Gunther Oettinger (Germany) Matthias Ruete

Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion László Andor (Hungary) Koos Richelle

Internal Market and Services Michel Barnier (France) Jonathan Faull

Regional Policy Johannes Hahn (Austria) Dirk Ahner

Research, Innovation and Science Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (Ireland) Robert-Jan Smits

Climate Action Connie Hedegaard (Denmark) Jos Delbeke

Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fule (Czech Republic) Michael Leigh

Agriculture and Rural Development Dacian Ciolos (Romania) Jose Manuel Silva Rodriguez

International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Reponse Kristalina Georgieva Peter Zangl

Trade Karel de Gucht (Belgium) Jean Luc Demarty

Environment Janez Potocnik (Slovenia) Karl Falkenberg

Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Androulla Vassiliou (Cyprus) Jan Truszczyński

Health and Consumer Policy John Dalli (Malta) Paola Testori Coggi

Budget Janusz Lewandowski (Poland) Hervé Jouanjean

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European Commission 1049 Brussels, BelgiumMain Telephone Number: (0032) 2 299 1111Services in Luxembourg: (00352) 43011Website: www.ec.europa.eu The European Commission acts as the EU’s executive body, with responsibility for initiating legislation and running the EU organisation. It currently has 27 members, each representing a Member State. Ireland’s current commissioner is Máire Geoghegan-Quinn and she holds the research, innovation and science portfolio.

President: José Manuel Barroso (Portugal)Appointed: November 2004Spokesperson: Leonor Ribeiro da SilvaSpokesperson’s email: leonor.

[email protected] positions: Portugese President 2002 – 2004. Political Party: Social Democratic PartyEducation/Qualifications: Bachelor of Law degree, University of Lisbon; Masters in Political Science, University of Geneva; Diploma in European Studies. Previous occupations: He was a teaching assistant at the faculty of law at Lisbon University and at the department of political science at the University of Geneva He was also a visiting professor at the department of government and school of foreign service at Georgetown University and head of the international relations department of Lusíada University, Lisbon.

European Parliament Brussels:Rue Wiertz, B-1047, BelgiumMain Telephone Number: +32 2 284 2111Fax: +32 2 284 6974

Strasbourg:Alleé du Printemps, BP 1024 , F-67070Strasbourg Cedex, FranceMain Telephone Number: +33 3 881 74001Fax: +33 3 882 56501

Luxembourg:Plateau du Kirchberg, L-2929LuxembourgMain Telephone Number: +352 43001Fax: +352 4300 24842Website: www.europarl.europa.eu

Ireland: EU House43 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2Main Telephone Number: 01 605 7900Fax: 01 605 7999Website: www.europarl.ie

President: Jerzy Buzek (Poland)Appointed: July 2009Previous positions: Prime Minister of Poland 1997-2001Political party: European People’s Party

Education/Qualifications: Master’s in technical sciences (1963); doctorate in technical sciences, (1969); postdoctoral qualification (dr. hab.) in technical sciences (1979): Silesian University of TechnologyPrevious occupation: Jerzy Buzek was professor of Silesian University of Technology and scientific director of PAN - Institute of Chemical Engineering. He has been a member of the Civic Platform party since 2009.He was the head of the works committee and chairperson of the 1st, 4th, 5th and 6th national congresses of Solidarność independent and self-governing trade union. He was also chairperson of the Policy Council for Gliwice in the 1990 elections and a member of the Sejm from 1997 to 2001.

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Marian Harkin North West Parlement européenBât. Altiero Spinelli10G25360, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60B-1047 Bruxelles/BrusselTel: +32 02 28 45797

Fax: +32 02 28 49797Email: [email protected]

Jim Higgins North West Parlement européenBât. Altiero Spinelli13E10260, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60B-1047 Bruxelles/BrusselTel: +32 02 28 45843


Pat ‘The Cope’ Gallagher North West Parlement européenBât. Altiero Spinelli10G30560, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60B-1047 Bruxelles/BrusselTel: +32 02 28 45591

Fax : +32 02 28 49591Email: [email protected]

Proinsias De Rossa Dublin Parlement européenBât. Altiero Spinelli11G21060, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60B-1047 Bruxelles/BrusselTel : +32 02 28 45681


Paul Murphy Dublin Parlement européenASP 07F25860, rue Wiertz1047 BrusselsBelgiumTel: +32 02 284 5836


Gay Mitchell Dublin Parlement européenBât. Altiero Spinelli07F25860, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60B-1047 Bruxelles/BrusselTel : +32 02 28 45228


Phil Prendergast SouthParlement européen Bât. Altiero Spinelli11G20960, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60B-1047 Bruxelles/BrusselTel : +32 02 28 45537

Fax: +32 02 28 49537

Brian Crowley South Parlement européenBât. Altiero Spinelli04F36560, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60B-1047 Bruxelles/BrusselTel: +32 02 28 45751


Seán Kelly South Parlement européenBât. Altiero Spinelli08F35360, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60B-1047 Bruxelles/BrusselTel: +32 02 28 45206



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Liam Aylward East Parlement européenBât. Altiero Spinelli10G30960, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Tel: +32 02 28 45782Fax: +32 02 28 49782Email: [email protected]

Nessa Childers East Parlement européenBât. Altiero Spinelli11G21760, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Tel: +32 02 28 45535Fax: +32 02 28 49535Email: [email protected]

Mairead McGuinness East Parlement européenBât. Altiero Spinelli08F26560, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel

Tel. : +32 02 28 45214Fax : +32 02 28 49214Email: [email protected]

Council of the European UnionGeneral SecretariatRue de la Loi 175, 1048 Brussels, BelgiumMain Telephone Number: +32 2 281 6111Fax Number: +32 2 281 6934Email: [email protected] Website: www.consilium.europa.euThe Council of the European Union is the highest body of the European Union, comprising a representative of each Member State (either the head of State or head of government) and the President of the European Commission. The presidency of the Council rotates every six months, with a representative of a Member State always holding the office. It exercises control over the common foreign and security policy.

European Court of First Instanceand ECThe Court of First Instance is made up of at least one judge from each of the 27 member states. The judges are appointed by agreement of the Member State governments for a renewable mandate of six years. They appoint a president, for a period of three years, from amongst themselves. They also appoint a registrar for a mandate of six years. The Court of Justice is composed of 27 judges and eight advocates general. The judges and advocates general are appointed by common accord by the governments of the member states for a renewable term of six years. They are chosen from among lawyers whose independence is beyond doubt and who possess the qualifications required for appointment, in their respective countries, to the highest judicial offices, or who are of recognised competence.

European Court of Auditors The Court carries out audits through which it assesses the collection and spending of EU funds. It examines whether financial operations have been properly recorded and disclosed, legally and regularly executed and managed so as to ensure economy, efficiency and effectiveness. The Court promotes accountability and transparency by assisting the European Parliament and Council in overseeing the implementation of the EU budget, particularly during the discharge procedure, and brings added value to EU financial management through its reports and opinions, playing a proactive role within the construction of the Union and helping to bring it closer to European citizens.

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Ireland’s permanent representation in Brussels89/93 Rue Froissart1040 BrusselsBelgiumMain Telephone Number: +32 2 230 8580Fax: +32 2 230 3203Permanent Representative: Rory MontgomeryAppointed: April 16 2009Previous positions: Rory Montgomery joined the department of foreign affairs in 1983 and had a secondment to the European Commission in 1988 and 1989. He was the Irish representative at the European Convention in 2002 and the political director in the department of foreign affairs from 2004 to 2005. He was an assistant secretary in the department of foreign affairs from 2005 to 2009Education/ Qualifications: BA (Gold Medalist & Foundation Scholar) and MBA: University of Dublin, Trinity College. Personal assistant: Claire O’Connell Tel: + 32 2 282 3216

Deputy Permanent Representative: Tom HanneyAppointed: September 2011Personal assistant: Mary Wemyss Tel: + 32 2 282 3222

Political and Security Representative: Keith McBeanAppointed: August 2009

Military Rep: Thomas BehanAppointed: March 2009

Counsellor: Aingeal O’Donoghue Counsellor: Keith McBean First Secretary: David Bruck First Secretary: Nigel Hutson First Secretary: Padraig Francis First Secretary: Julian Clare First Secretary: Joana Betson First Secretary: Michael Sanfey First Secretary: Tim Harrington Press Officer: Deirdre Farrell Third Secretary: Ciara O’Floinn Third Secretary: Barry Tumelty

Cooperation in the fields of Justice and Home Affairs

Judicial cooperation in criminal matters, terrorism and police cooperation: Geraldine Moore.Tel: + 32 2 282 3346 Judicial Cooperation in Criminal matters, Terrorism and Police Cooperation: Dan Kelleher (First Secretary) Tel: +32 2 282 3486 Asylum, Migration and Frontiers: Padraig Devine (First Secretary)Tel: +32 2 282 3340 Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters and Equality: Nicola Murphy (First Secretary) Tel: +32 2 282 3269 Economic and Financial Affairs Financial Consellor: Fred CooperTel: +32 22823 254Budget Attaché: Emma CunninghamTel: +32 22823253Fiscal Attaché: Clare McNamaraTel: +3222823 277Financial Services Attaché: Mary Lawless Tel: +32 22823 371 Administrative and Secretarial Support: Onide Nutter Tel: +32 22823223

Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer AffairsEmployment policy and labour law issues: Maurice KennedyTel: +32 22823 229

Social protection issues: Dymphna BoyleTel: +32 22823212Equal opportunities issues: Padraig DevineTel: +32 22823269Health issues: Eugene LennonTel: +32 22823272

CompetitivenessInternal Market, Consumer Affairs, and IPR Attaché: Paul Brennan Tel: +32 22823246

Industry & Competitiveness Attaché: Pauline MulliganTel: +32 22823242

Research & Company Law Attaché: Robert McLeanTel: +32 22823238

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Transport, Telecommunications and EnergyEnergy Attaché: Michael Goodwin Tel: +32 22823231Communications Attaché: Des HackettTel: +32 22823234

Transport Counsellor: Michael HarperTel: +32 22823230Transport Attaché: Monica WallaceTel: + 32 22823455

Agriculture and FisheriesCounsellor: Jarlath ColemanTel: +32 22823393 Agricultural Attaché: Brian Kilgallen Tel: +32 22823258 Agricultural Attaché: JP MulherinTel: +32 22823241 Fisheries Attaché: Martin CrowleyTel: +32 22823374 General Affairs: Elaine Croke Tel: + 32 22823256 Secretariat: Liam ForristalTel: +32 22823274 Secretariat: Anne MageeTel: +32 22823232

Environment Paul Lemass Tel: + 32 22823264 Terry SheridanTel: +32 22823337Maureen McGrattanTel: +32 22823267 Onide Nutter Tel: +32 22823223

Education, Youth and Culture Culture, Sport and Tourism Attaché: Caoimhín Ó CiaruáinTel: +32 2282 3334 Education Attaché: Joanne TobinTel: +32 22823302

Revenue Customs Section Customs Attaché, Norman O’GradyTel: +32 22823 321 Customs: Declan O’Hora Tel: +32 2823282Maureen McGrattan Tel: +32 2823267Onide Nutter Tel: +32 2823223

European Commission Representation in IrelandEuropean Union House, 18 Dawson House, Dublin 2Tel: (01) 634 1111 Fax: (01) 634 1112Email: [email protected] Website: www.euireland.ie

Head of Representation: Barbara NolanHead of Press: Ruth DeasyHead of Information: Tim Hayes

Europe Direct Information Centres

There are seven information centres located throughout Ireland(i) Waterford City:Waterford City Council Central LibraryLady Lane, WaterfordTel: 051 849975 Fax: 051 850031 Email: [email protected]: www.waterfordcity.ie Manager: Jane Cantwell

(ii) LetterkennyCentral Library,Oliver Plunkett RoadLetterkenny, Co DonegalTel: 074 9124950Fax: 074 9124950Email: [email protected]: http://www.donegallibrary.ie/Manager: Ciara Cunnane

(iii) Thurles, Co TipperaryThe Source, Cathedral Street, Thurles, Co TipperaryTel: 050 429720Fax: 050 421344E-mail: [email protected]: www.tipperarylibraries.ie/ Manager: Ann Marie Brophy (iv) Blanchardstown Dublin Blanchardstown Library & OfficesBlanchardstown Centre,Dublin 15.Tel: 01 8905576Fax: 01 890 5786Email: [email protected] Website: www.fingalcoco.ie / Manager: Enid Bebbington

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(v) Carraroe & Ballinasloe LibraryBallinasloe LibraryFairgreen, Ballinasloe, Co GalwayTel: 090 964 3464Fax: 091 565039Email: [email protected]: www.galwaylibrary.ieManager: Mary Dillon

Carraroe Branch LibraryAn Scailp Chultúrtha, An Cheathrún Rua, Co na GaillimheTel: 091 595733Fax: 091 565039Email: [email protected]: www.galwaylibrary.ieManager: Peigi Vaughan

(vi) DundalkCo Louth Roden Place, Dundalk, Co LouthTel: 042 9353190Fax: 042 9337635Email: [email protected]: Sheila Tierney

(vii) KillarneyRock Road, Killarney.Tel: 064 6632655Fax: 064 6632967Email: [email protected]: www.kerrylibrary.ie/killarneybranch.asp

European Documentation CentresNUI DublinOfficial Publications DepartmentMain Library, Belfield, Dublin 4Tel: 01 716 7521

Trinity College Library, Official Publications LibraryCollege Street, Dublin 2Tel: 01 8961655

NUI Cork College RoadCorkTel: 021 490 2363

NUI Galway The Library, Galway

Tel: 091 524411Fax: 091 522394

University of Limerick The Library, Plassey HouseTel: 061 202185Fax: 061 330271

University College DublinOfficial Publications James Joyce LibraryBelfieldDublin 4Tel: 01 7167521

European Commission Food and Veterinary Office (FVO)Grange, Co MeathTel: 046 906 1700 Fax: 046 906 1879Director: Michael Scannall

EU Structural Funds InformationStructural Funds Information Office15 Lower Hatch Street, Dublin 2Tel: 01 639 6280Fax: 01 639 6281Email: [email protected]: www.eustructuralfunds.ie

European Court of First InstanceLuxembourg 2925Tel: +352 43031Fax: +352 4303 2100Website: www.curia.europa.eu

European Court of JusticeLuxembourg L-2925Tel: +352 43031Fax: +352 4303 2600Website: www.curia.europa.eu

European Court of Auditors12 Rue Alcide De Gaspari, L-1615LuxembourgTel: +352 43981Fax: +352 439342Email: [email protected]: www.eca.europa.eu

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Associated Bodies/ AgenciesEuropean Central Bank (ECB)Kaiserstrasse 29, D-60311Frankfurt am MainGermanyTel: 0049 69 13440Fax: 0049 69 1344 6000Email: [email protected]: www.ecb.int President: Jean-Claude Trichet

CEPOL – European Police CollegeCEPOL House, Bramshill, Hook Hampshire RG27 0JW, UKTel: 0044 1256 602668 Fax: 0044 1256 602296Email: [email protected]: www.cepol.europa.euDirector: Ferenc Bánfi

Community Fisheries Control AgencyRue de la Loi 56B-1049 Brussels, Belgium Tel: (0032) 2 299 1111Email: [email protected]: www.ec.europa/cfca

Chairperson: Marcelo VasconcelosExecutive Director: Harm Koster

Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO)BP 10121, 49101 AngersCedex 02, FranceTel: (0033) 2 4125 6400Fax: (0033) 2 4125 6410Email: [email protected]: [email protected]

Education, Audiovisual and Cultural Executive AgencyAvenue du Bourget 1, BourB-1140 Brussels, BelgiumTel: (0032) 2 295 0017Fax: (0032) 2 292 1325Email: [email protected]: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/index.htm

EurojustMaanweg 174, 2516 ABThe Hague, NetherlandsTel: (0031) 70 412 5000Fax: (0031) 70 412 5005Email: [email protected]: www.eurojust.europa.eu

President of the College: Aled WilliamsAdministrative Director: Mr Hans Jahreiss

European Agency for ReconstructionEgnatia 4, 54626Thessaloniki, GreeceTel: (0030) 2310 505100Fax: (0030) 2310 505172Email: [email protected]: www.ear.europa.eu

Director: Adriano Martin (Acting)

European Agency for Safety and Health at WorkGran Via 33E-48009 Bilbao, SpainEmail: [email protected]: www.osha.europa.euDirector: Dr Jukka Takala

European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)Postfach 10 12 53Koln, GermanyTel: 0049 221 8999 0000Fax: 0049 221 8999 0999Email: [email protected]: www.easa.europa.eu

Executive Director: Patrick Goudou

European Centre for the Development of Vocational TrainingPO Box 22427, GR-55102Thessaloniki, GreeceTel: 0030 2310 490111Fax: 0030 2310 490102Email: [email protected]: www.cedefop.europa.euDirector: Mr Christian F. Lettmayr (Acting)

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)Tomtebodavagen 11AKarolinska Campus, SolnaSwedenTel: 0046 8 5860 1000Fax: 0046 8 5860 1001Email: [email protected]: www.ecdc.europa.euDirector: Dr Marc Sprenger

European Chemicals Agency [ECHA]Annankatu 18, 00121Helsinki FinlandTel: (00358) 9 686180Email: [email protected]: www.ec.europa.eu/echaExecutive Director: Geert Dancet

European Data Protection SupervisorRue Montoyer 63Brussels, BelgiumTel: 0032 2 283 1900Fax: 0032 2 283 1950Email: [email protected]: www.edps.europa.euSupervisor: Peter Hustinx

European Defence Agency (EDA)Rue de Drapiers 17-231050 Brussels, BelgiumTel: 0032 2 504 2800/21/22Fax: 0032 2 504 2815Website: www.eda.europa.eu Steering Board Chairman: Catherine AshtonChief Executive: Claude-France Arnould

European Environment AgencyKongens Nytorv 6, DK-1050Copenhagen K, DenmarkTel: 0045 3336 7100Fax: 0045 3336 7199Website: www.eea.europa.eu

Executive Director: Jacqueline McGlade

European Food Safety AuthorityLargo N. Palli 5/A, I-43100 Parma, ItalyTel: 0039 5 2103 6111Fax: 0039 5 2103 6110Email: [email protected]: www.efsa.europa.eu

Executive Director: Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle

European Investment Bank100 Boulevard Konrad Adenauer,L-2950 LuxembourgTel: 00352 43791Fax: 00352 437704Email: [email protected]: www.eib.orgPresident: Philippe Maystadt

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working ConditionsWyattville Road, Dublin 18Tel: 01 204 3100Fax: 01 282 6456/282 4209Email: [email protected]: www.eurofound.europa.euDirector: Jorma Karppinen

European GNSS Supervisory AuthorityRue de la Loi 56B-1049 Brussels, BelgiumEmail: [email protected]: www.gsa.europa.euExecutive Director: Pedro Pedreira

European Investment Fund43 Avenue J-F Kennedy L-2968 LuxembourgTel: 00352 426 6881Fax: 00352 4266 88200Website: www.eif.org

Chairperson: Philippe MaystadtChief Executive: Francis Carpenter

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European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA)Avenida Dom Joao II,Lote 1.06.2.5,1998-001 Lisboa, PortugalTel: 00351 21 120 9200Fax: 00351 21 120 9210Email: [email protected]: www.emsa.europa.eu

Chairperson: Brian WadsworthExecutive Director: Willem de Ruiter

The European Medicines Agency (EMEA)7 Westferry Circus, Canary WharfLondon E14 4HB, UKTel: 0044 207 418 8400Fax: 0044 207 418 8416Email: [email protected]: www.emea.europa.eu

Chairman: Pat O’MahonyExecutive Director: Andreas Pott (Acting)

European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug AddictionRua da Cruz de Sta Apolónia 23-25P-1149-045 Lisbon, PortugalTel: 00351 21 811 3000Fax: 00351 21 813 1711

Chairman: Marcel ReimenDirector: Wolfgang Gotz

European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) Science and Technology Park of Crete(ITE), Vassilika Vouton70013, Heraklion, GreeceTel: 0030 28 1039 1280Fax: 0030 28 1039 1410Website: www.enisa.europa.eu

Executive Director: Prof. Udo Helmbrecht

European Railway Agency160 Boulevard Henri HarpigniesValenciennes 59300FranceTel: 0033 3270 96500Fax: 0033 3270 966695Email: [email protected]: www.era.europa.euChairman: Michael HartingExecutive Director: Marcel Versylpe

European Training Foundation (ETF)Villa Gualino, Viale Settimio Severo 65I-10133 Torino, ItalyTel: 0039 11 630 2222Fax: 0039 11 630 2200Email: [email protected]: www.etf.europa.eu

Director: Madlen Serban

European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)Schwarzenbergplatz 111040 ViennaTel: 0043 1580 3060 Fax: 0043 1580 30699Email: [email protected]: www.fra.eurpa.euChairperson: Ms Ilze Brands KehrisInterim Director and Head of Administration: Morten Kjaerum

European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)43 Avenue du Président Wilson75775 Paris Cedex 16, FranceTel: 0033 1 5689 1930Fax: 0033 1 5689 1931Email: [email protected]: www.iss.europa.euDirector: Álvaro de Vasconcelos

EUROPOLContact Details: Raamweg 47, 2596 HNThe Hague, NetherlandsTel: 0031 70 302 5000Fax: 0031 70 345 5896Email: [email protected]: www.europol.europa.euDirector: Rob Wainwright

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Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI)Covent Garden Builiding,Place Rogier 16, BelgiumFax: 0032 2 292 1892Irish contact: Matthew Kennedy, Sustainable Energy Ireland

Executive Agency for the Public Health Programme (PHEA)Contact Details: 12, rue Guillaume KrollL-1882 LuxembourgTel: 00352 4301 32015Fax: 00352 4301 30359Email: [email protected]: www.ec.europa.eu/pheaDirector: Luc Briol

Frontex (European Agency for the Management of Operational Co-operation at the External Borders of the Members States of the European Union)Rondo ONZ 1 00-124 Warsaw, PolandTel: 0048 22 544 9500Fax: 0048 22 544 9501Email: [email protected]: www.frontex.europa.eu

Chairperson: Mr Robert StrondlExecutive Director: Ilkka Laitinen

Office for the Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)4 Avenida de Europa03008 Alicante, SpainTel: 0034 96 513 9100Fax: 0034 96 513 1344Email: [email protected]: www.oami.europa.euChairperson of the Administrative Board: Martti Enajarvi

Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union1 Rue du Fort ThungenL-1499 LuxembourgTel: 00352 421 7111Fax: 00352 421 71120Email: [email protected]: www.cdt.europa.euDirector: Gailé Dagiliené

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