Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in a tabular form a list of quasi-governmental organisations and agencies that have been created since 9 March 2011;the date on which the body was created; the name of the body; the 2012 budget for the body; the number of employees of the body and if the body engages manpower resources from outside the body. [47125/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The information requested in the question is as follows:

The Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2012, which was recently passed by the Oireachtas, will facilitate my Department’s agency rationalisation programme, under which 21 agencies will be reduced to 11.

The Local Government Management Services Board and the Local Government Computer Services Board have merged with the establishment of the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA). The LGMA will also take on the residual functions from An Chomhairle Leabharlanna, which will be dissolved. Where necessary, the LGMA engages external personnel resources.

The Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency was formally established on 1 August 2012 under the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency (Establishment) Order 2012. It rationalises the functions of the National Building Agency (NBA), the Affordable Homes Partnership (AHP) and the Centre for Housing Research (CHR). The AHP and the CHR have been closed down and the NBA ceased operating in June 2011. The Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency does not engage external personnel resources.