Written Answers Nos. 271-288
286. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, as a result of the introduction of EU regulation 2064/97, the rules governing grant expenditures here had been necessarily changed in 1997. [39357/13]
View answer287. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform with reference to his Department's email of July 2012, which requested the former chairman of an NGO (details supplied) to identify his resolution and the action his Department took to implement that resolution. [39358/13]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 280, 281, and 285 to 288, inclusive, together.
Prior to the establishment of my Department in 2011 overall responsibility for Structural Funds in Ireland lay with the Department Of Finance. However, the Department of Finance did not then, and my Department does not now, have a substantive role in relation to the issues referred to in these questions. Specifically, the Department of Finance at the time had no responsibility for, nor had any involvement in, any of the allegations referred to.
