Unit: Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

An Roinn Breisoideachais agus Ardoideachais, Taighde, Nuálaíochta agus Eolaíochta

Sunday 2nd of August 2020 - still active

Creation of a new Department which assumed a number of responsibilities within the remit of the prior Department of Education & Skills (as it then was)

From date: 2020-08-02
To date:
Source: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 2020 (No. 10 of 2020); https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-higher-education-innovation-and-science/
Confidence: Very Confident
Names: An Roinn Breisoideachais agus Ardoideachais, Taighde, Nuálaíochta agus Eolaíochta
- Source: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 2020 (No. 10 of 2020)
- From date: 2020-08-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Legal forms: Ministerial Departments
- Source: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 2020 (No. 10 of 2020)
- From date: 2020-08-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Functions: Policy Formation and Execution
- Source: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 2020 (No. 10 of 2020); https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-higher-education-innovation-and-science/
- From date: 2020-08-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Policy domains: Education and Training
- Source: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 2020 (No. 10 of 2020); https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-higher-education-innovation-and-science/
- From date: 2020-08-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Counties: Dublin
- Source: https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-higher-education-innovation-and-science/
- From date: 2020-08-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ministers: Simon Harris
- Source: "https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-06-27/11/; https://president.ie/en/diary/details/president-appoints-members-of-government-2020; Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 2020 (No. 10 of 2020)"
- Description: Fine Gael; Appointed following formation of Government in June 2020. New Department was formally established on 2 August 2020
- From date: 2020-08-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Cofog: tertiary education
- Source: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 2020 (No. 10 of 2020); https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-higher-education-innovation-and-science/
- From date: 2020-08-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Cofog: post-secondary non-tertiary education
- Source: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 2020 (No. 10 of 2020); https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-higher-education-innovation-and-science/
- From date: 2020-08-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Cofog: Research and Development (Education)
- Source: Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 2020 (No. 10 of 2020); https://www.gov.ie/en/organisation/department-of-higher-education-innovation-and-science/
- From date: 2020-08-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
FOI: yes
- Source: Freedom of Information Act 2014 (No. 30 of 2014)
- From date: 2020-08-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Comptrollers: yes
- Source: Comptroller and Auditor General Act 1923 (No. 1 of 1923) (as amended)
- From date: 2020-08-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
Ombudsmans: yes
- Source: Ombudsman Act 1980 (No. 26 of 1980) (as amended)
- From date: 2020-08-02
- Confidence: Very Confident
URL: https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2020/act/10/enacted/en/html
URL: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2020/si/451/

Associated Events
Name	Date	From	To
S.I. No. 451/2020 (Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science)	2020-10-21	Department of Education and Skills	Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act 2020 (Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science)	2020-08-02	Department of Education and Skills	Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

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Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

An Roinn Breisoideachais agus Ardoideachais, Taighde, Nuálaíochta agus Eolaíochta