Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

I thank Deputy Ó Caoláin for his contribution and for the attention he has brought to the Bill. He was the only person to make a contribution, which is to his credit.

This Bill contains some of the efficiencies recommended in the public sector. The OECD, as the Deputy knows, made it clear that certain efficiencies could be secured through amalgamation and by subsuming certain agencies into parent Departments. In my own area, the Centre for Early Childhood Development and Education is to be subsumed into the Office of the Minister of State for Children and Youth Affairs.

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