Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 September 2012
501. Deputy Dara Calleary asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of agencies, authorities, boards, committees, working groups, tribunals, council services, task forces, agencies or other quangos set up by his Department since February 2011; the number abolished since then; the extra cost of quangos which were established; the savings from the abolition of quangos; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37250/12]
Amharc ar fhreagraSince February 2011 my Department has not set up any agencies, authorities, boards, committees, working groups, tribunals, council services, task forces, agencies or other quangos. With regard to the numbers abolished since February 2011 the only group that was abolished was the Decentralisation Implementation Group. The Decentralisation Implementation Group was disbanded in November 2011. The costs of the Group arose directly from the meetings it held. There were no savings from the actually abolition of the Group as its work had already been substantially reduced in 2009 with the deferral of the majority of the remaining elements of the Decentralisation Programme at the end of 2008. There were only two meetings of the Decentralisation Implementation Group in 2010 and no meetings at all in 2011.
