Assignment of Responsibilities under the
Public Service Management Act 1997

Carol has been assigned responsibility at Assistant Secretary level for:

• addressing issues of equality, discrimination, tolerance and diversity in respect of all nine grounds covered by the Equality legislation and for ensuring that Government commitments and international obligations on equality and human rights are delivered;
• the Office for the Promotion of Migrant Integration (OPMI) which is responsible for developing, driving and coordinating integration policy across other Government Departments, agencies and services,  including 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; 
• the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) which ensures that the material needs of asylum seekers, in the period during which their applications for international protection are being processed, are met, through the provision of accommodation and ancillary services  under the Direct Provision system.
   

Carol is a Designated Public Official under the Regulation of Lobbying Act 2015 : see www.lobbying.ie