Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 544: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the annual fees paid to each chairperson and director in each statutory board under the remit of his Department. [10879/05]

Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
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The five statutory agencies operating under the aegis of my Department are the Pensions Board, the Combat Poverty Agency, Comhairle, the Social Welfare Tribunal, and the Family Support Agency. In addition, the Pensions Ombudsman comes under the remit of my Department. Pensions Board fees, paid to Pensions Board members, excluding civil servants, are governed by the First Schedule to the Pensions Act 1990, as amended, and are as follows: chairperson €10,160 p.a. Member €6,349 p.a. Combat Poverty Agency: the Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2002 amended the Combat Poverty Agency Act 1986 to provide for the payment of fees to Combat Poverty Agency board members. This provision of the Act came into effect from 9 August 2002 and the following fee levels have been effective from that date to the present: Chairperson €7,618.43 p.a. Member €5,078.95 p.a. Fees are payable to all members of the board, excluding civil servants. Fee payments are calculated on the basis of the period of time served as a board member. Comhairle: no fees are paid to the chairperson or board members of Comhairle. The Social Welfare Tribunal: the policy in relation to remuneration of tribunal members is that a fee per hearing is payable to each member as follows: chairman €418.76 per sitting day €63 per conference meeting; members €117.29 per sitting day €58.64 per conference-meeting Fees are payable as per sanction and approval from the Department of Finance. Family Support Agency:board members receive fees on a quarterly basis. The chairperson's fee amounts to €1,904.64 per quarter. Eight other board members each receive €1,269.74 per quarter. Three board members do not receive fees as they are serving civil servants.