Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 15 November 2022
415. Deputy Michael Moynihan asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in each county who will receive the €500 disability support grant announced in budget 2023, in tabular form. [56750/22]
View answerMy department is committed to do everything we can to assist people with disabilities and to act quickly to deliver the Disability Support Grant and other budget measures within an exceptionally short timeframe.
The once-off payment of €500 to those in receipt of the disability support payments to people on Disability Allowance (DA), Blind Pension (BP) and Invalidity Pension (IP) will commence the week of the 14 November 2022.
At the end of October 2022, there are 157,101 recipients of Disability Allowance who are entitled to the Disability Support Grant.
The department is not in a position to collate the requested data of the number of persons in each county that will receive the €500 disability support grant in tabular form, while this process is ongoing.
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 2022 will be published in 2023.
I hope this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.
