Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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-----the education and training boards and the reduction this May in the number of local authorities, and will be big in number terms but involve one specific action. All of those actions will be completed by the middle of this year.

Of course, we have created new bodies. One looks at new challenges and issues that require new ways of operating and sometimes there is a justification for it. I do not regard necessarily the notion of a non-government organisation as bad per se. However, I will get Deputy Fleming the exact number. I will trawl through all Departments. Obviously, all of them have been approved by Government. I imagine there are very few. Maybe, through parliamentary questions, the Deputy has got the answer to that question. In my Department, I have created none.