Madam, - In his criticism of "unaccountable quangos" (The Irish Times, November 11th) the vice-chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Mr John McGuinness, TD (FF) said: "There are enough bodies to fill Glasnevin and enough boards to make the coffins".
How right he is. Over the years successive governments have spawned a bewildering array of agencies of every conceivable description with hopeless confusion as to roles and responsibilities and with unlimited scope for buck-passing, red tape and turf wars over who controls what. The result is a bureaucratic quagmire and it is little wonder that Mr McGuinness found that many of the bodies were "indecisive and inefficient".
The "wholesale reform" proposed by Mr McGuinness should, of course, be undertaken without delay. However, when one remembers that such an exercise would be unlikely to attract very many votes and would, if successful, reduce the scope for political patronage, I tend to be somewhat sceptical that anything will happen. - Yours, etc.,
M.D. KENNEDY, Silchester Park, Glenageary, Co Dublin.