Editing Quango (section)

=== Ireland ===

In 2006, there were 832 quangos in the Republic of Ireland&nbsp;– 482 at national and 350 at local level&nbsp;– with a total of 5,784 individual appointees and a combined annual budget of €13 billion.<ref>According to a survey carried out by the [[think tank]] Tasc in 2006. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20110222003631/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article616806.ece Focus: What's wrong with the quangos?]"&nbsp;— ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times]]'' newspaper article, 29 October 2006</ref>

The Irish majority party, [[Fine Gael]], had promised to eliminate 145 quangos should they be the governing party in the 2016 election.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McGee |first1=Harry |title='Quango cull': Audacious promises of 2011 amounted to little |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/quango-cull-audacious-promises-of-2011-amounted-to-little-1.2929535 |access-date=17 September 2024 |publisher=The Irish Times}}</ref> Since coming to power they have reduced the overall number of quangos by 17. This reduction also included agencies which the former government had already planned to remove.