Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 18 November 2009
214 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the State agencies under the remit of his Department which have, or had over the past decade, the power to sign statutory instruments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42040/09]
View answer215 Deputy Leo Varadkar asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide a list of all unnumbered statutory instruments signed by him or his predecessors over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42055/09]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 214 and 215 together.
There are no State agencies operating under the aegis of my Department. There is a list of all statutory instruments brought by my Department from 1935 to date available at the following link of my Department's website, http://www.dfa.ie/home/index.aspx?id=3034#instruments. Details of all statutory instruments, together with details of all legislation, are available on the following link to the website of the Irish Statute Book, which is produced by the Office of the Attorney General, http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/home.html . I am not aware of any unpublished, and therefore unnumbered, statutory instruments which have come into force, since taking up my role as Minister for Foreign Affairs.
