Written answers
Thursday, 22 November 2007
Department of Social and Family Affairs
State Bodies
3:00 pm
Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 117: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the number of new boards, agencies, bodies, commissions and offices which have been established in the past ten years and the number which have been abolished under the remit of his Department. [30499/07]
Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The number of new boards, agencies, bodies, commissions and offices which have been established or abolished in the past ten years under the remit of my Department are as follows:
Comhairle (now known as the Citizens Information Board) was established on the 12th June 2000 under the provisions of the Comhairle Act, 2000. The functions of the National Social Services Board (NSSB), which operated under the aegis on my Department, and certain relevant functions of the National Rehabilitation Board (NRB), were combined in Comhairle and both the NSSB and NRB were dissolved. The name of the Board was changed from Comhairle to the Citizens Information Board, on the 21st February 2007, under the provisions of the Citizens Information Act, 2007.
The Family Support Agency was established on the 6th May 2003.
The Office of the Pensions Ombudsman was established on the 2nd September, 2003.
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