Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Castlepollard social welfare branch office is to be closed; her plans in relation to this office; and if services will be delivered to the population of north County Westmeath into the future. [3756/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The Department currently has 58 Social Welfare Branch Offices at various locations throughout the country. Each Branch Office is operated and managed, under a contract for services, by a Branch Manager who is required to act as an agent for the Department in the area served by the office.

The contract for the delivery of contracted Branch Office services in Castlepollard is due to expire on the 9^thof February 2018, and the Department is considering options for the delivery of services in this area.