Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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145. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence 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. [3401/18]

Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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There were three bodies under the aegis of my Department in 2011 - the Civil Defence Board, the Board of Coiste an Asgard and the Army Pensions Board.

The Civil Defence Board was identified in the Public Service Reform Plan as a body to be abolished and legislation was passed by the Oireachtas in December 2012 for the dissolution of the Board. Its functions and staff transferred back to the Department of Defence from 1 January 2013.

Coiste an Asgard was the company set up to manage the National Sail Training Scheme. In September 2008, the company’s sail training vessel ‘Asgard II’ sank in the Bay of Biscay. In December 2009, the then Government announced that the National Sail Training Scheme was to be discontinued and the funding for 2010 was cancelled. The Company was inactive from that date and there were no crew or staff left on the payroll. The formal wind up of the Company including voluntary strike off with the Companies Registration Office was completed in early 2013.

The Army Pensions Board, which is an independent statutory body established under the Army Pensions Act 1927, remains in operation.

No new agencies have been established under the auspices of my Department in the period from 2011.