I thought I had a good idea of what Departments existed, and who their Ministers were. I just found the website of Office of the Minister for Integration. I rush to the about us page and read every word
The Office of the Minister for Integration (OMI) was set up in June 2007 following the appointment by the Government of a Minister of State with responsibility for the development of integration policy. The Minister of State (currently Mr John Curran T.D.) is Minister of State at three Departments: Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Education and Science and Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.
So the page contradicts itself. There is no such thing as a Minister for Integration, the correct title is Minister of State [for Integration].Phew I haven’t been asleep after all.
The page continues to say
Staff from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and staff from the Integration Unit of the Department of Education and Science are co-located with the Minister in offices in Mespil Road.
Yes I guessed that because, just like the Private Security Authority, the favicon.ico in the root of the domain is the corporate logo of the Department of Justice.
Returning to the first quotation who is Mr John Curran TD? His domain is johncurrantd.com (I assume that johncurran.com was taken, yes its parked, but surely the local ccTLD would be more appropriate for a politician, well yes he has johncurran.ie, someone should suggest a redirect)
So I visit johncurrantd.com and what do I see
I have nothing against this TD, I just feel the need to highlight the errors, and rather then email a TD, something I will never do after all the local ones ignored my Driving Test waiting list complaints I’ll discuss it here. Maybe a media monitoring service will find this and bring it to the “Offices” attention.
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