Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 17 September 2014
136. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form, the number of individuals resident in the State and in receipt of UK state pensions for each of the following years, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, based on information provided to her Department by the UK Department for Work and Pensions. [34383/14]
View answer137. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form, an analysis of the gross value of UK state pensions received by residents here for each of the years 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, based on information provided to the Department by the UK Department for Work and Pensions. [34384/14]
View answer138. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form, the number of individuals resident by county and in receipt of UK state pensions for 2012 and 2013, based on information provided to the Department by the UK Department for Work and Pensions. [34385/14]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 136 to 138, inclusive, together.
Under a Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Social Protection (DSP) and the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) in the UK, the DSP has received information from the DWP regarding their clients, with addresses in the Republic of Ireland, who are in receipt of United Kingdom welfare payments.
This information is used solely to identify mutual customers, that is, persons in receipt of a UK welfare payment who are also in receipt of a “top-up” Irish non-contributory welfare payment. Under the Memorandum of Understanding information is only maintained on mutual customers. As a result the information requested by the Deputy on the total number of individuals resident in the State and in receipt of UK State Pensions for each of the following years, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, along with an analysis of the gross value of UK State Pension for those years and county details for 2012 and 2013 is not available to the Department.
According to the DWP website the following are the number of DWP clients with addresses in the Republic of Ireland who are in receipt of UK welfare payments.
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Year: |
2009 (Nov) |
2010 (Nov) |
2011 (Nov) |
2012 (Nov) |
2013 (Nov) |
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Per DWP website: |
115,630 |
121,400 |
125,530 |
128,860 |
132,070 |
