John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Let us go down and look at the MABS organisation. It is a good organisation and I have no issues with it, but I have questions in terms of the make-up of these boards. There is a board in every county. Let us consider the costs of the board as against the administration costs. This follows from a question I asked recently. The cost of some boards as a percentage of the administration costs are run at 8% or 6%, while others run up as far as 20%, 30% and so on. Who carries out the analysis of the costs in respect of each board? There is a board membership of eight, nine or 11 members. There seems to be a significant structure of boards around the MABS organisation.