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Other Government Departments

• Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
• Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism
• Office of the Attorney General
• Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
• Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
• Department of Defence
• Department of Education and Science
• Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
• Department of Finance
• Department of Foreign Affairs
• Department of Health and Children
• Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
• Office of the Revenue Commissioners
• Department of Social and Family Affairs
• Department of the Taoiseach
• Department of Transport and the Marine

Offices under the aegis of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

• Companies Registration Office
• Employment Appeals Tribunal
• Labour Court
• Labour Relations Commission
• National Employment Rights Authority
• Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement
• Office of the Registrar of Friendly Societies, Parnell House, 14 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, Ireland. Telephone: +353 1 8045499
• Patents Office

Bodies/Agencies under the aegis of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

• City and County Enterprise Boards
• Competition Authority
• Enterprise Ireland
• FÁS
• Forfás
• Health and Safety Authority (HSA)
• IDA Ireland
• InterTrade Ireland
  All-Island Trade & Business Development Body
• Irish Auditing and Accounting Supervisory Authority (IAASA)
• National Consumer Agency
• National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI)
• Injuriesboard.ie
• Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
• Shannon Development

Business Information

• Enterprise Ireland
• County Enterprise Boards
• Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement
• Companies Registration Office
• The Competition Authority
• The Company Law Review Group
• County/City Development Board
• The North-South Ministerial Council
• InterTrade Ireland
• www.kompass.ie
• Broadband Information
• BASIS (Business Access to State Information and Services)
• www.startingabusinessinireland.com
• Startup.ie
• The South East Business and Innovation Centre
• Western Development Commission. WDC is a statutory body promoting economic and social development in counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Roscommon, Mayo, Galway and Clare.
  • Look West promoting the West as a better place to live, work and do business.

Employment Information

• National Employment Rights Authority
• Citizens Information website
• FÁS
• Employment Permits
• European Commission: Employment and Social Affairs
• The European Social Fund
• The Federation of European Employers

Consumer Information

• National Consumer Agency
• The European Consumer Centre Dublin FAQ provides information on your rights as a consumer in Ireland and the European Union.
• More useful links for consumers

Public Services Information

• www.gov.ie website will help you to find government organisations or information by providing links, including links to online government services, indices of recent publications and a search engine that searches all government sites.
  • Government and related websites
  • Online government services
• www.citizensinformation.ie is an Irish eGovernment website developed and maintained by the Citizens Information Board. The site provides comprehensive information on all aspects of Public Services and entitlements for citizens in Ireland.
• Office of the Ombudsman

Emergency Planning Public Information and Awareness Campaign

The Office of Emergency Planning website details the Irish Government's plans for major emergencies. It has been developed by the Office of Emergency Planning to bring together current available information on Ireland's planning, response and management with regard to a wide range of emergencies.

EU information

• www.eumatters.ie is a Department of Foreign Affairs website which provides factual information about Ireland’s membership of the European Union.
• EUROPE DIRECT offers information on all sorts of subjects related to the EU including your rights and opportunities as an EU citizen and how to take advantage of them. It can provide direct responses to general enquiries and, if you have more detailed questions, signpost you to the best source of information and advice at EU, national, regional and local levels.
• EUROPA is the portal site of the European Union (http://europa.eu). It provides up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration. Users can also consult all legislation currently in force or under discussion, access the websites of each of the EU institutions and find out about the policies administered by the European Union under the powers devolved to it by the Treaties.

Social Inclusion and Integration Information

• Office for Social Inclusion. OSI is the Government office, located in the Department of Social and Family Affairs, with overall responsibility for developing, co-ordinating and driving the National Action Plan Against Poverty and Social Exclusion (NAP/Inclusion). This plan incorporates the National Anti-Poverty Strategy and the social inclusion commitments contained in Sustaining Progress.
• www.integration.ie is the website of the Office of the Minister for Integration. The Office has a cross-Departmental mandate to develop, drive and co-ordinate integration policy across other Government Departments, agencies and services. The Minister's functions include the promotion of the integration of legal immigrants into Irish society, the establishment of new structures for this purpose, the management of the resettlement of refugees admitted as part of the United Nations Resettlement Programme and the administration of funding from national and EU sources to promote integration.

Science and Technology Information

• www.science.ie Ireland's Science & Technology news, events and information website
• Learn about Ireland's national science promotion programme Discover Science and Engineering at www.discover-science.ie
  • Read the online career resource website at MyScienceCareer.ie from DSE
• Enterprise Ireland
• Forfás
• Science Foundation Ireland
• www.cordis.lu For information on European and member state Research & Development
• www.expertiseireland.com
• The European Space Agency
• The European Molecular Biology Laboratory
• The European Molecular Biology Organisation which promotes biosciences in Europe
• Organisation for European Co-operation and Development
• Co-operation Of science & Technology co-ordinating nationally funded research at European level

Public Service Modernisation

• www.onegov.ie website provides information on the Transforming Public Services Programme. Through the website, you can access the publications that make up the ‘Transforming Public Services’ Programme and find out the latest news and updates on the transformation of the Public Service.
• The Organisational Review Programme (ORP) is a Public Service Modernisation initiative managed by the Department of the Taoiseach. It is examining the capabilities of Government Departments in a number of key areas, focussing on their ability to deal effectively with future challenges.
  • ORP Reports and Departmental Action Plans
• www.betterregulation.ie website provides information on Better Regulation - an important part of the Government's drive for greater economic competitiveness and modernisation of the Public Service.

Other useful links

• Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes: Volume 1 (PDF, 432KB) ¦ Volume II Detailed Papers (PDF, 1.13MB) ¦ Press Statement (PDF, 28KB)
• The National Development Plan The National Development Plan 2007-2013 entitled Transforming Ireland – A Better Quality of Life for All, sets out the roadmap to Ireland’s future.
  • Border, Midland and Western Regional Assembly
  • Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly
• Towards 2016-Social Partnership Agreement
• National Workplace Strategy is the Government's blueprint to help transform Ireland's workplaces into Workplaces of the Future.
• www.ideasinstitute.ie: The Institute's task is to identify ways in which new thinking and new services can be introduced into the workplace.
• Public Private Partnership website provides a central point of access to information about the Public-Private Partnership process in Ireland.
• Institute of Public Administrationis the Irish national centre for development of best practice in public administration and public management.
• Information and maps on Ireland's physical and social infrastructure
• Commission for Taxi Regulation
• The Pensions Board
• Central Statistics Office