I 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
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2016
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2017
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2018
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2019
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2020
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2021
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256
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208
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192
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140
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130
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115
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