Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Thursday, 17 Oct 2002

Vol. 555 No. 4

Written Answers. - Departmental Revenue.

Richard Bruton

Ceist:

194 Mr. R. Bruton asked the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the revenue from charges related to public services which her Department approves to be raised by agencies under her aegis, which are not included in appropriations in aid for 2000, 2001 and 2002. [18734/02]

Minister for Social and Family Affairs (Mary Coughlan)

The information sought by the Deputy in relation to agencies operating under the aegis of my Department is as follows:–

Pensions Board

Fees are levied by the pensions board on occupational pension schemes and are intended to cover the costs incurred by the board in the regulation and monitoring of pension schemes.

In addition, income is derived from the sale of publications.

	2000	2001	2002
	€	€	€
Income from fees levied =	2,184,097	2,301,765	2,463,000*
Income from publications =	77,348	39,883	15,000*
	2,261,445	2,341,648	2,478,000*

*Estimated

Comhairle

The following amounts were raised by Comhairle from charges relating to subscriptions to its citizens information database and paper-based information files, training course fees and income from publications and from rental income.

	2000	2001	2002
	€97,169	€101,118	€49,470

Combat Poverty Agency

The following amounts were raised by the agency from fees relating to seminar-conference and from sales of publications.

	2000	2001	2002
	€48,316	€22,070	€11,647