John Lyons (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 283: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reduce the number of quangos; and the number he believes can be closed. [22389/11]

Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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The Government is currently undertaking a Comprehensive Review of Expenditure under which all areas of public expenditure are being subject to scrutiny. The Government expect that this will go beyond simply abolishing agencies and also consider issues such as how existing agencies might be reformed, how functions might be reallocated among them, and how different bodies within and beyond individual Ministers' remit might be brought together on a repurposed, streamlined basis.

The question of rationalization and the reduction in the number of state agencies will be considered in the context of the Comprehensive Review of Expenditure and the overall budgetary and estimates process for 2012 and later years.