I propose to take Questions Nos. 460, 469, 474, 482, 484 to 486, inclusive, and 488 together.
The information requested by the Deputy in respect of 2010 and 2011 remains unchanged from that in reply to Questions Nos. 476, 485, 490, 497, 501, 502, 503 & 505 on 6 November 2012.
The number of recipients of Social Welfare at county level breakdown is not published by my Department for these schemes in the Statistical Information on Social Welfare Services report. Work has commenced on the compilation of data for the production of the 2012 report which will be laid before the Dáil when it is published.
However, I have set out for the Deputy’s information, in tabular format, the total number of recipients in each of the schemes referred to along with the provisional expenditure as at the 31st of December 2012.
Scheme
|
Number of Recipients
|
Provisional Outturn €000
|
Partial Capacity Benefit
|
733
|
2,107
|
Adoptive Benefit
|
14
|
458
|
Bereavement Grant
|
22,793
|
19,779
|
Rural Social Scheme
|
2,591
|
45,242
|
Fuel Allowance
|
Information regarding the allowance’s recipients is not segregated from the statistics of the schemes under which it is paid.
|
194,925
|
Living Alone Allowance
|
175,791
|
The cost of the Allowance is not segregated from the scheme expenditure under which it is paid.
|
Household Benefit Recipients
|
414,432
|
368,689
|
Number of Household Benefits Electricity
|
293,328
|
|
Cash Electricity
|
67,077
|
|
Gas
|
44,346
|
|
Telephone
|
394,671
|
|
T.V. License
|
408,626
|
|
Total
|
1,208,048
|
|
Island Allowance
|
547
|
The cost of the Allowance is not segregated from the scheme expenditure under which it is paid.
|