Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline in tabular form, the amount of money allocated by her Department and agencies within her Department to Ballina, Castlebar and Westport Town Council between 1997 and 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43953/12]

Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)
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The amount of money paid by my Department to Ballina, Castlebar and Westport Town Councils between 1998 and to date in 2012 is set out in the following table. There are no records available for 1997.

The statutory bodies operating under the aegis of the Department of Social Protection are the Citizens Information Board, the Pensions Board, the Office of the Pensions Ombudsman and the Social Welfare Tribunal. No money was paid by the Pensions Board, Office of the Pensions Ombudsman or the Social Welfare Tribunal to Ballina, Castlebar or Westport Town Councils between the years 1997 and 2007. Details of money paid by the Citizens Information Board (formerly Comhairle) are outlined in the following table.

Comhairle was established in June 2000 and was renamed the Citizens Information Board (CIB) in 2007. Other than the payments outlined in the response to Castlebar Town Council in the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, no other payments were made by Comhairle/CIB since its establishment. Comhairle/CIB has never made any payments to either Ballina or Westport Town Councils.