Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 November 2019

Select Committee on Social Protection

Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Supplementary)

Photo of John CurranJohn Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have one or two further questions. The figures are not significant but I am curious as to what is going on behind them than the actual numbers. There is a grant of €841,000 for the Citizens Information Board, CIB, and a saving of €0.5 million on Abhaile due to the volume of vouchers not being redeemed as predicted. Can the Minister put that in context? How many vouchers were redeemed and how many were not? Equally, when she talks about the Money Advice and Budgeting Bureau, another half a million euros is referred to as a reduction in the allocation to Money Advice and Budgeting Service, MABS, companies for the dedicated mortgage arrears services. These are small amounts of money but is it is surprising that demand is not there from the pressures that we anecdotally hear abouty. I do not know if the Minister has numbers to hand on this.

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