Written answers
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Departmental Agencies
11:00 am
Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 224: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of State agencies under his responsibility; the number of staff within each agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45821/10]
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The three statutory bodies operating under the aegis of the Department are the Pensions Board, the Citizens Information Board and the Social Welfare Tribunal. In addition the Pensions Ombudsman comes under the remit of the Department.
The table contains the information sought in the Parliamentary Question.
| Name of Board/Agency | 2010 staff numbers |
| The Pensions Board | 37.8 |
| Office of the Pensions Ombudsman | 9.8 |
| Social Welfare Tribunal | Nil |
| Citizens Information Board | 89.1 |
Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 225: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the annual budget of each State agency under his control in each of the years 2000 to 2010, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45822/10]
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The three statutory bodies operating under the aegis of the Department are the Pensions Board, the Citizens Information Board and the Social Welfare Tribunal. In addition the Pensions Ombudsman comes under the remit of the Department.
The information requested in respect of these bodies is set out in the table.
| Name of Statutory Body | Annual Budget Allocation |
| The Pensions BoardThe operations of the Pensions Board are largely financed by annual fees payable to it by occupational pension schemes and by providers of Personal Retirement Savings Accounts.The budget includes a contribution by D/SP to Board's policy work in 2000 and 2001.The budget includes a contribution to Personal Retirement Savings Account (PRSA) costs in the period 2001-2007. This subvention ceased at the end of 2007.The budget includes an allocation for National Pension Awareness Campaign (NPAC) costs from 2003 to date. | 2000: €0.067m2001: €0.992m2002: €0.885m2003: €1.913m2004: €1.928m2005: €1.804m2006: €2.162m2007: €2.073m2008: €1m2009: €0.5m2010: €0.5m |
| Citizens Information Board (CIB)* The increase in the CIB budget from €28.005m in 2009 to €45.872m in 2010 is as a result of responsibility for MABS transferring to CIB in July 2009 and the associated budget being fully included in the CIB budget, for the first time, in 2010. | Comhairle (est. 12/06/00)2000: €4.94m2001: €12.795m2002: €15.367m2003: €17.016m2004: €17.901m2005: €20.997m2006: €24.362mCitizens Information Board (est. 21/02/07)2007: €28.140m2008: €29.467m2009: €28.005m2010: €45.872m* |
| Social Welfare Tribunal | 2000: £0.006m2001: £0.006m2002: Nil2003: €0.008m2004: €0.003m2005: €0.004m2006: €0.004m2007: €0.002m2008: €0.006m2009: €0.005m2010: €0.004m |
| Office of the Pensions Ombudsman | 2000:2001:2002:2003/2004: €0.842m2005: €0.733m2006: €0.653m2007: €1.058m2008: €0.961m2009: €0.974m2010: €0.986m |
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