People reassured that frontline Cit Info and MABS services will be maintained
The CEO of the Citizens Information Board says there will be no change in the locations where its drop-in centres or those of the Money Advice and Budgeting Services are located. In an interview with Ocean FM News, she insists the changes taking place at board level in the two…
CIS CEO: New structure aimed to reduce boards not services to people
The CEO of the Citizens Information Board says that proposed changes to the organisation will affect the boards only. Speaking ahead of an informational meeting in Carrick-on-Shannon on Friday on plans to ‘regionalise’ both CIS and MABS, Angela Black says the changes should not affect frontline services. Managers at local offices…
Leitrim Councillor urges retention of MABS and CIS structures
A Leitrim councillor says plans to regionalise the Citizens Information and the Money Advice and Budgeting services as ‘one of the most outrageous ever made.’ In this region, the organisations have offices in Donegal Town, in Sligo, and in Ballinamore in Leitrim. Under proposed changes, local offices would come under…
Citizens Information managers call on Minister to retain county structure
Citizens Information providers in small counties like Leitrim and Sligo fear that their service would be effectively ‘swallowed-up’ if plans to regionalise them go ahead. The Citizens Information Board has been looking at the best way to restructure both CIS and MABS and their recommendations were made in February and…
Citizen’s Information in Sligo says county structure is vital to service
The development manager of the Citizen’s Information Service in Sligo says any change to its service needs to retain the county structure. At present, a restructuring of the Cit Info and the Money Advice and Budgeting Service is being considered with a view to regionalising them. It would mean that…
TDs raise concern about ‘centralisation’ of MABS
The future of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service is now also under threat. The issue was raised in the Dail last night where Fianna Fail Deputy Willie O’Dea moved a motion against the regionalisation of the service. There are plans to abolish the local services and making regional centres.…
Concerns that local MABS services may be regionalised
A Sligo/Leitrim TD has voiced concern over plans to change the structure of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, otherwise known as MABS. The service is currently operated by individual boards across the country. However, it is now proposed that these boards be regionalised into eight structures, with managers in…