Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 822: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the position regarding the Christmas bonus for pensioners, etc. in 2009; if the anti-fraud campaign was successful enough to allow for a partial bonus to be awarded in 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37986/09]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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In the Supplementary Budget in April, it was announced that the December Bonus payment would not be paid this year. There are no plans to alter this decision.

The annual control target for my Department in 2009 is €616.5m of which nearly €355m was achieved by the end of last September. These target control savings for 2009 are incorporated in my Department's Revised Estimate for 2009.