Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
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| Formed | 26 August 1921 |
| Jurisdiction | Ireland |
| Headquarters | 29-31 Adelaide Road, Dublin 2, D02 X285 53°19′56″N 6°15′22″W / 53.33222°N 6.25611°W |
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| Website | www |
The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment (Irish: An Roinn Cumarsáide, Gníomhaithe ar son na hAeráide agus Comhshaoil) is a department of the Government of Ireland that is responsible for the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors and regulates, protects and develops the natural resources of Ireland. The head of the department is the Minister for Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources who is assisted by one Minister of State.
The official headquarters and ministerial offices of the department are in 29–31 Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. The departmental team consists of the following:
The Department of Fisheries was created in 1921. Over the years its name and functions have changed several times. The Department was previously known as the following:
The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment is the result of a series of amalgamations and dispersals of various departments over recent decades. The most significant such change was in June 2002 when elements of the Department of Public Enterprise (those dealing with energy and communications), were merged with the Department of Marine and Natural Resources and smaller elements of other Departments, to form the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources. In the years immediately following this, a series of functions formerly belonging to the Department of the Marine were dispersed out to other Departments (such as forestry, which went to the Department of Agriculture, and Maritime Transport and Ports, which went to the Department of Transport).
Following the 2007 general election, the remaining elements of the Department with a marine focus were dispersed to other Departments (the Fisheries and Aquaculture functions went to the Department of Agriculture, and the Foreshore functions went to the Department of Agriculture). As such, the Department now consists of functions held in 2002 by the Department of Public Enterprise (Energy and Communications Policy), the Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands (Broadcasting policy), the Department of the Marine and Natural Resources (Natural Resources, including mineral resources and Inland Fisheries), and the Department of the Taoiseach (Knowledge Society).
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