Social Welfare Benefits

Tuesday, 15 June 2021

Questions (872)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Question:

872. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of making a one-off annual double payment of child benefit to all recipients in September 2021. [31167/21]

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Written answers

Minister for Social Protection

The cost of making a double payment of Child Benefit in September 2021 would be an additional €176 million. There is no provision in the 2021 Further Revised Estimate to make such a payment.