Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 468: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the action she has taken to date to fulfil the commitment in the programme for Government to make substantial cuts to the number of State bodies and companies; the number of such bodies and companies under her remit; the number that have been reformed, merged or abolished since March of this year; the plan in place within her Department to fully deliver on this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32846/11]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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My Department was formally established on the 2nd of June 2011 and since then it has not established or abolished any State agencies, independent statutory bodies, State boards or other quangos.

It should be noted that following enactment of the Child Care Amendment Act 2011, which was guided through its final stages in the Oireachtas in July by myself, the Children's Act Advisory Board was subsequently dissolved by means of the commencement by the Minister of Health of Part 6 of the Child Amendment Act 2011.

The following State agencies come under the aegis of my Department: Family Support Agency, Adoption Authority of Ireland, Office of the Ombudsman for Children; and the National Education & Welfare Board.