Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 22 June 2016
224. Deputy Lisa Chambers asked the Minister for Health the number of occasions in each of the years from 2011 to 2016 to date in which the powers vested in him or any other Minister in his Department were exercised, without any express act of delegation, by departmental officials of certain seniority and responsibility, as per the Carltona doctrine. [17472/16]
View answerAs the Deputy may be aware, under the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 a number of officials in my Department are authorised to act on my behalf. Under the Public Service Management Act 1997 the Secretary General manages the day to day business of the Department. This Act empowers the Secretary General to assign to other officers responsibility for the performance of his or her functions. Assignments under the Act, with respect to the Department of Health, can be found at www.whodoeswhat.gov.ie.
