Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 329: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of staff employed by Pobal; the annual budget for this organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33831/08]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Pobal is a not-for-profit company with charitable status that manages programmes on behalf of the Government and the EU. In addition to my Department, POBAL manages programmes on behalf of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, the Office of the Minister for Children, the Department of Transport, the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the Higher Education Authority.

I understand that Pobal has a staff compliment of 270 full time posts. According to its Annual Report and Accounts for 2007 (the last full year for which figures are available) the funding advanced to POBAL for both Programme and administration costs was €377.6m of which total operating expenses came to €17.4m.

Pobal's Annual Report and Accounts for 2007 has been laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas.