Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 July 2012
345 Deputy Paudie Coffey asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of persons, non-governmental organisations and quangos that receive remuneration from her Department by way of wages, salaries, pensions, grants and other departmental funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31863/12]
Amharc ar fhreagra346 Deputy Paudie Coffey asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a list in tabular form of every quango and non-governmental organisation that received any moneys from her Department in 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31887/12]
Amharc ar fhreagraI propose to take Questions Nos. 345 and 346 together.
On 1st June 2012, there were 6,826 people serving in the Department of Social Protection. Having regard to work sharing arrangements, these occupied the equivalent of 6,435 full-time posts.
The three statutory bodies operating under the aegis of the Department are the Social Welfare Tribunal, the Citizens Information Board (CIB) and the Pensions Board. In addition, the Office of the Pensions Ombudsman comes under the remit of the Department.
The grant payments currently made by the Department relate mainly to the CIB and the Pensions Board.
In 2009, the Department made grant payments to the Family Support Agency. The Family Support Agency is now under the aegis of the Department of Children and Youth Affairs.
The Department also made grant payments to individual Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) companies up to 2009. From 2010 on, MABS companies have been funded by the CIB, which received substantially increased funding on that account.
The Combat Poverty Agency was incorporated into the Office of Social Inclusion in the Department in July 2009 and transferred to the Department of Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs in March 2010. Responsibility for the Office of Social Inclusion transferred back to this Department in May 2011.
Details of grants paid by the Department of Social Protection to organisations providing services on its behalf in the past three years are set out in the table below.
|
Year |
Number in Receipt |
Organisations |
|
2009 |
24 |
Citizens Information BoardMABSCombat Poverty AgencyFamily Support AgencyIrish National Organisation for the UnemployedThe Pensions BoardNorthside Community Law CentreNorth West Roscommon CDP LtdPaul Partnership LimerickCorduff CDPWaterford Women’s Community NetworkBere IslandCounty Leitrim partnershipMayo Intercultural Action LtdFinglas South Community Development programmeWest Offaly PartnershipLifford/Clonleigh Resource CentreEqual Access CDPWolfe Tone CDPBlakestown CDPIorrais Le Cheile CDPFatima Regeneration BoardGort family resource CentreNational Adult Literacy Agency |
|
2010 |
8 |
Citizens Information BoardFamily Support AgencyIrish National Organisation for the UnemployedThe Pensions BoardNorthside Community Law CentreHealthy Food For AllCROSSCARECommunity Action Network |
|
2011 |
4 |
Citizens Information BoardIrish National Organisation for the UnemployedThe Pensions BoardNorthside Community Law Centre |
