Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 17 January 2024
878. Deputy Marian Harkin asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount of money paid under the heading adult dependant allowance in each of the years 2015 to 2023, inclusive of those who reside outside the State, by the country of destination of these payments, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56684/23]
View answerMost welfare benefits require the recipient to be habitually resident in Ireland. Certain welfare benefits, such as State Pension Contributory allow the recipient, and any adult dependents such as a spouse to live outside the State.
The data requested by the Deputy for the calendar year 2023 is shown in the attached tabular statement.
Note that only a person's current country of residence is readily available in my Department's records. Due to this limitation, the table below is a record of all adult dependent allowances paid in the calendar year 2023 to people who were resident outside Ireland in January 2024. As such, it does not include payments made to people who moved to Ireland in 2023, while it includes payments made to people who lived in Ireland at the start of 2023 before moving away.
This means that the expenditure figures shown in the table are statistical estimates rather than exact figures.
While the figures for 2023 are a reasonable estimate of the true position, I regret that the data limitation noted above means that figures for earlier years cannot be presented here.
The following schemes allow for an increase for a Qualified Adult: Adoptive Parent Benefit, Back to Work Scheme, Basic Supplementary Welfare Allowance, Blind Pension, Back to Education Program, Daily Expenses Allowance, Disability Allowance, Farm Assist, Health and Safety Benefit, Illness Benefit, Incapacity supplement, Invalidity Pension, Jobseekers Allowance, Jobseekers Benefit, Occupational Injuries Benefit, Parents Benefit, Partial Capacity Benefit, Paternity Benefit, Short Term Enterprise Allowance, State Pension Contributory, State Pension Non-Contributory, Part-Time Job Incentive Scheme and Work Placement Experience Programme. 'Expenditure' here is therefore the expenditure on Qualified Adult payments in relation to these schemes in 2023.
|
Country |
Expenditure (million €) |
|
Ireland |
954.1 |
|
United Kingdom |
5.1 |
|
Poland |
1.7 |
|
Australia |
0.9 |
|
Spain |
0.9 |
|
USA |
0.7 |
|
Other |
4.8 |
|
All |
968.2 |
