Written answers
Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Departmental Expenditure
9:00 pm
James Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Question 358: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the persons or bodies in receipt of subventions or grants from his Department; the amount paid to each recipient in the year such payments commenced; the amount paid to each recipient in the current year; to place in the Oireachtas Library the latest two sets of accounts for these payments furnished by such persons or bodies to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39683/10]
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested is set out in the table below. Annual Reports and accounts for the Citizen's Information Board, Pobal, the Pensions Board and the Office of the Pensions Ombudsman when published are placed in the Dáil Library. This is also the case for the statutory accounts of the Social Insurance Fund.
Figures for 2010 are provisional and subject to audit by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General.
| Subhead | Recipient | Total payments made by Dept of Social Protection up to end of September 2010)(€) | Year payments commenced | Amount paid in year payments commenced(€) |
| T. Citizens Information Board1 | Citizen's Information Board | 34,455,000 | 2000 | 8,341,000 |
| V. Rural Social Scheme2 | Pobal, Local Development Companies and Údarás na Gaeltachta | Nil | 2004 | 3,220,000 |
| W. Community Services Programme2 | Pobal | Nil | 2006 | 40,290,000 |
| X 5. Grants - Information and Welfare Rights3 | Northside Community Law CentreIrish National Organisation of the Unemployed | 386,250160,578 | 19931992 | Information in relation to the funding received when the payments commenced to these organisations is not readily available. |
| X.6. National Pensions Awareness Campaign4 | The Pensions Board | Nil | 1998 | 58,160 |
| X.7. Office of the Pensions Ombudsman | Office of the Pensions Ombudsman | 637,995 | 2004 | 500,893 |
| Y. Payment to Social Insurance Fund under section 9(9)(a) of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 20055 | Social Insurance Fund | 1,380,000,000 | 2010 | 1,380,000,000 |
Grants and Subventions paid by Department of Social Protection in 2010
1 The Citizens Information Board (CIB) was established in 2007, having previously been known as Comhairle, which was established in 2000.
2 Responsibility for the Rural Social Scheme (RSS) and the Community Services Programme (CSP) transferred from the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs on 1 September 2010. Payments to Pobal from the Department of Social Protection commenced in October 2010 with €3,364,371 paid in respect of the RSS and €4,000,000 paid in respect of the CSP. Up to end September 2010 payments to Pobal were made by the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs - €38.3 million was paid in respect of the RSS and €40.15 million in respect of the CSP.
3 Details of payments made under Subhead X .5 are contained in the Department's Appropriation Accounts. The accounts of each company are a matter of public record and can be obtained through the Companies Registration Office.
4 In October 2010 the Pensions Board received a payment of €212,000 for the National Pensions Awareness Campaign.
5 The Social Insurance Fund (SIF) was established by the Social Welfare Act 1952 (as amended). In the period 1953 to 1996 it received State subvention to meet the shortfall between SIF income and expenditure. The period 1997 to 2009 saw the SIF in surplus and subvention was not required. Subvention has once again become necessary in 2010
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