Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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537. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of agencies, boards or other bodies under the aegis of his Department that have been disbanded or amalgamated or whose functions were subsumed back into his Department since 2011; the number of such bodies set up by his Department since that date; the names of the bodies in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3412/18]

Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent)
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Since 2011 there have been no new agencies created; however a number have been merged.

Dundalk Port Company was merged with Dublin Port Company on 12 July 2011, while Tralee and Fenit Harbour Commissioners transferred to the control of Kerry County Council on 1 October 2011.  On 1st January 2012 both Baltimore and Skibbereen Harbour Commissioners and Kinsale Harbour Commissioners transferred to the control of Cork County Council. On the same date Arklow Harbour Commissioners transferred to the control of Wicklow County Council.  The final Harbour Commissioners, Bantry Bay, merged with the Port of Cork Company on 1 January 2014. Wicklow Port Company transferred to the responsibility of Wicklow County Council on 30th August 2016 while Drogheda Port Company transferred to the responsibility of Louth County Council on 2nd October 2017.

In 2012 Dublin Tourism merged with its parent body Fáilte Ireland on 1 January.Shannon Airport separated from the Dublin Airport Authority on 31st December 2012 to merge with a restructured Shannon Development to form a new integrated Shannon entity in public ownership with Shannon Group being established on the 5th September 2014.

Coaching Ireland merged into the Irish Sports Council on 1 January 2013.

The National Roads Authority and the Railway Procurement Agency merged to a single entity called Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) on the 1st August 2015.

The Irish Sports Council and the National Sports Campus Development Authority merged on 1st October 2015 to a single entity called Sport Ireland.