User:Jnestorius/List of changes in Irish government departments

This is a list of changes to the names and responsibilities of departments of state and corresponding ministers in the Irish Free State and the Republic of Ireland.

Table of changes
See Alphabetical list of orders made under section 6 (1) of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1939 (eISB)

This table includes: It does not include:
 * Creation, renaming and abolition of departments
 * Reallocation of functions from one department to another
 * Creation of new functions for a department
 * Abolition of previous functions for a department, e.g. by privatization or abolition of a subsidiary body.

Addresses
The continuity of address should transcend the change of name. But departments move a lot; Health used to be in the Custom House, and P&T in Hawkins House.

See also [http://www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie/D/0117/D.0117.194907120048.html Written Answers. - State Premises in Dublin] Dáil Éireann - Volume 117 - 12 July, 1949

Departmental publication codes
A departmental paper will have a publication number of format X.n or X.n/m where X is department code, n is sequence of item and m is sequence of issue/edition [e.g. for annual reports, constant n and incremented m]. In general each department has its own code, which is inherited by successor if closely related but not if substantially different or minor component of merge: e.g. A Agriculture [and Fisheries]; F Fisheries [and Lands but not Agriculture]; L Lands [but not Fisheries; discontinued 1977]. Note that K "Local Government and Public Health" to 1947 while post-1947 was mainly Local Government [Environment from 1977] was also Health 1947-68 [thereafter Z] and Social Welfare 1947-73 [thereafter N].