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President of the Executive Council, and also the custody of and responsibility for all public archives and records and of papers and documents of State and of grants, deeds and other instruments of title relating to the property corporeal and incorporeal, real and personal for the time being vested in Saorstát Eireann and of records of the Executive Council and also the custody of the Seal of the Executive Council and also the responsibility for and control of the official publications of the Executive Council and also the administrative control of and responsibility for such public services and the business, powers, duties and functions thereof as may not for the time being be comprised in any of the Departments of State constituted by this Act.
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the business, powers, authorities, duties and functions by the Constitution or by any existing or future Act of the Oireachtas or otherwise conferred on or to be discharged or performed by the Minister, who shall hold the office of and be styled Uachtarán na hArd-Chomhairle or (in English) the
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In addition, the Department of the Taoiseach is involved in a number of other areas such as the development and co-ordination of policy in relation to economic and social development (
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The main role of the department is to support and advise the Taoiseach in carrying out various duties. The department also supplies administrative support to the
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as the Department of the President of the Executive Council, which came into operation on 2 June 1924. Under that act it was assigned:
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in respect of his duties and provides the Secretariat to the Government. The department acts as a link between the
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The civil servant who heads the Department of the Taoiseach is known as the
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The position of Taoiseach was created under Articles 13.1 and 28.5 of the
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Department of President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State
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of the Constitution of Ireland, which occurred on 29 December 1937.
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Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
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Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
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reform. It also arranges State functions such as the annual
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President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State
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Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
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Government Buildings
Department of President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State
Government of Ireland
Government Buildings
Merrion Street
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Simon Harris
Taoiseach
Secretary General
Central Statistics Office
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Michael D. Higgins
Council of State
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Simon Harris
Tánaiste
Micheál Martin
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