Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 507: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of bodies and agencies under his aegis; and his proposals for the rationalisation of same. [8193/10]

Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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The bodies under the aegis of my Department are the Civil Defence Board, the Army Pensions Board and the Board of Coiste an Asgard.

In the context of settling the Estimates for my Department for 2010, the Government decided that the national sail training scheme operated by Coiste an Asgard would be discontinued as recommended in the Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure.

As a result, no funding has been provided in 2010 in respect of Coiste an Asgard. Other than this decision, there are no proposals for the rationalisation of bodies under the aegis of my Department.