Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of agencies, authorities, boards, committees, working groups, tribunals, council services, task forces, agencies or other quangos set up by her Department since February 2011; the number abolished since then; the extra cost of quangos which were established; the savings from the abolition of quangos; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37240/12]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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My Department was formally established on the 2nd of June 2011 and has not established any quangos. Below are the number of various advisory groups established since coming to office:

Established

A Working Group to Review the National Educational Welfare Board in the context of the establishment of the Child and Family Support Agency. A Working Group to Review the School Completion Programme. The Expert Advisory Group to the Early Year's Strategy. Children Services Committees Steering Group. Children Services Committees in Wicklow, Waterford, South Tipperary and Meath. The Task Force on the Child and Family Support Agency. The Children First Implementation Group.

The Local Authorities have also established a National Local Authority Play and Recreation Network in conjunction with my Department.

Abolished

The Task Force's work was completed upon publication of its Final Report, in July 2012.