Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 19 January 2022
960. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the back to education allowance in County Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1499/22]
View answer989. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the back to education allowance in County Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1512/22]
View answer1029. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the back to education allowance in County Clare in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1684/22]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 960, 989 and 1029 together.
Detailed information on scheme recipients, including recipients by county, are published each year by my Department in the Annual Statistical Report on Social Welfare Services, which is available at gov.ie/dsp/statistics. The Annual Statistical Report on Social Welfare Services in respect of 2021 is expected to be published in quarter 2 of this year.
The archive on gov.ie contains reports from 1998 through to the latest available report, which is 2020. Quarterly data by county, covering Q1 2014 through to Q3 2021, is also available, and is published on a quarterly basis through the national open data portal, data.gov.ie
The information requested by the Deputies is set out in the table below.
|
Scheme |
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
|
Back to Education |
256 |
208 |
192 |
140 |
130 |
115 |
