Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 11 December 2012
255. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline in tabular form the number of recipients of child benefit who are in receipt of payments for third and subsequent child broken down by country and number of children. [55373/12]
View answerChild Benefit is paid to around 608,000 families in respect of some 1.16 million children. It is a universal payment that assists parents with the cost of raising children and contributes towards alleviating child poverty. It is expected that some €2 billion will be spent on Child Benefit in 2012.
Child benefit is paid to almost 141,000 families in which there are three or more children. Just under 475,000 children live in families where there are three or more children. This represents 23% of families and 40% of children. Almost three quarters of these families have three children and more than nine out of ten of the families concerned have either three or four children.
Child benefit is paid to a total of 189 families with three or more children in respect of 620 children who are living outside Ireland. This represents less than one seventh of one per cent of the families and children concerned.
The tabular statement gives a further breakdown of these data.
|
County |
Number of Families with 3+ Children |
Number of Children in Families with 3+ Children |
|
Antrim |
7 |
23 |
|
Armagh |
38 |
134 |
|
Carlow |
1,973 |
6,583 |
|
Cavan |
2,774 |
9,534 |
|
Clare |
3,985 |
13,403 |
|
Cork |
15,910 |
53,172 |
|
Derry |
51 |
172 |
|
Donegal |
5,424 |
18,686 |
|
Down |
98 |
340 |
|
Dublin |
32,311 |
108,228 |
|
Fermanagh |
67 |
222 |
|
Galway |
7,950 |
27,215 |
|
Kerry |
4,256 |
14,309 |
|
Kildare |
7,509 |
25,118 |
|
Kilkenny |
2,971 |
9,984 |
|
Laois |
2,731 |
9,298 |
|
Leitrim |
1,119 |
3,857 |
|
Limerick |
5,568 |
18,772 |
|
Longford |
1,457 |
5,097 |
|
Louth |
4,161 |
13,952 |
|
Mayo |
4,278 |
14,715 |
|
Meath |
6,740 |
22,411 |
|
Monaghan |
2,111 |
7,232 |
|
Offaly |
2,580 |
8,780 |
|
Roscommon |
2,004 |
6,851 |
|
Sligo |
2,011 |
6,869 |
|
Tipperary |
5,041 |
17,109 |
|
Tyrone |
31 |
106 |
|
Waterford |
3,559 |
11,866 |
|
Westmeath |
2,923 |
9,979 |
|
Wexford |
4,707 |
15,826 |
|
Wicklow |
4,376 |
14,515 |
|
Outside Ireland |
189 |
620 |
|
Total |
140,910 |
474,978 |
