Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 1425: To ask the Minister for Defence the bodies under the aegis of his Department which have not provided him with a 2004 annual report; and in the case of each body from whom he has received such a report if same has been laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas. [2288/06]

Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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The position regarding the provision of annual reports by the bodies under the aegis of my Department is as follows. It is not the practice for the Army Pensions Board to provide me with an annual report. Coiste an Asgard provided an annual report for 2004 and the report was laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas. The Civil Defence Board is a new State authority established in May 2003 by an order made under the Civil Defence Act 2002. The board initially concentrated its energies in preparing the first ever strategic plan for civil defence, copies of which I arranged to have laid before the Houses in 2005. The board is now finalising its annual report for 2004 for presentation to me and I will arrange to have copies of that report laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas at an early date.