Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 403: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a list of State agencies under her aegis; and the annual cost of each agency to the Exchequer. [36738/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The three statutory bodies operating under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection are the Social Welfare Tribunal, the Citizens Information Board and the Pensions Board. In addition, the Office of the Pensions Ombudsman comes under the remit of the Department but it does not have a Board. The cost to the Exchequer of each of the Agencies and Boards under the aegis of the Department in 2011 is as follows: Citizens Information Board, €45.113 million; Office of the Pensions Ombudsman, €973,000; the Pensions Board, €400,000; and the Social Welfare Tribunal, nil. The operations of the Pensions Board are largely financed by the annual fees payable to it by occupational pension schemes and by providers of Personal Retirement Savings Accounts. The allocation of €400,000 to the Pensions Board in 2011 was in respect of the National Pensions Awareness Campaign.