Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 July 2013
853. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, a list of all non-commercial State-sponsored bodies under the aegis of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36216/13]
View answerThe State agencies under the aegis of my Department are An Bord Pleanála; the Dublin Docklands Development Authority; the Environmental Protection Agency; the Housing Finance Agency; Irish Water Safety; the Housing Sustainable Communities Agency; the Local Government Management Agency; the Private Residential Tenancies Board; the Radiological Protection Institute Ireland; and the Western Development Commission. Pobal, which is a not-for-profit company with charitable status, manages programmes on behalf of the Irish Government and the European Union. Under the Department’s agency rationalisation programme, some 21 agencies have been reduced to ten through a series of measures. This will be further reduced to eight agencies, following the Government decision to wind up the operations of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority by the end of 2013 and to merge the Environmental Protection Agency and the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland by mid-2014.
