Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 12 October 2021
336. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons deemed eligible for an exceptional needs payment, an urgent needs payment and supplementary welfare allowance payments in Dublin 1, 3, 7 and 9 in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [49476/21]
View answerThe data requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below. This data is based on the last known address, and is based an analysis of free-text address fields; there may be cases where a postcode is not recorded and so is excluded from the below.
|
Exceptional & Urgent Needs Payments |
Supplementary Welfare Allowance Payments |
|
|
2016 |
6,667 |
3,117 |
|
2017 |
6,025 |
3,199 |
|
2018 |
6,510 |
3,410 |
|
2019 |
5,952 |
3,537 |
|
2020 |
4,899 |
2,876 |
|
2021 (to September) |
2,806 |
1,972 |
