Another quango not fit for purpose

The Irish Government recently announced the closure of the Office of Tobacco Control, prompting Forest Eireann's John Mallon to comment that it "should never have been set up in the first place". As John points out, the OTC's research programme is less than impressive. Makes you wonder what they did with all that public money. Click HERE to comment.

Meanwhile, as the countdown continues to the bonfire of the quangos over here, I'm sure that readers can suggest one or two publicly-funded organisations in the UK that would not be missed ...

Comments

[Pat Nurse]

ASH UK. I would say keep ONE smoke-fee quango but not ASH and break that coalition that does not allow for blanace or fair, impartial and real evidence.

[Specky]

ASH
Let Pfizer pay the lot ,not some ,after all it's really in their interests that it exists at all.

[Eddie Douthwaite]

It could be that they don't like having the OTC in public view and by hiding it within the HSE it will make it more difficult for people to pin down how much taxpayers money they are spending.