Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his moderately incomplete reply. I am trying to get a handle on the net savings or the net cost to the Exchequer resulting from the reduction in quangos and the creation of quangos. I know the Minister probably cannot tell me exactly, because some of them are not operating, but it would be important to know whether any savings are being made at all.

There was a mushrooming of these quangos during the lifetime of the previous Government, especially under Bertie Ahern.

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