Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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67. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of staff in citizens information centres and in the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, in each of the past five years. [42011/15]

Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The Citizens Information Board (CIB) is the statutory body responsible for supporting the provision of information, advice (including money and budgeting advice) and advocacy services on a wide range of public and social services. It delivers on its remit through a network of delivery partners which includes 42 local Citizens Information Services (CIS) and 51 local Money Advice and Budgeting Services (MABS). The number of paid employees across this network in each of the past 5 years was –

In addition, Citizens Information Services engage the services of employment scheme workers (approximately 130 whole time equivalents in 2014) and over 1,000 volunteers (approximately 124 whole time equivalents in 2014).