Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 8 September 2020
709. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment by welfare district; and the budget cost of the payment for each month from March 2020 to date. [21895/20]
Amharc ar fhreagraTo manage the delivery of services across the county, the country is split into eight divisional areas. The divisions are based on the location and catchment areas of the Department's various offices, rather than county boundaries. Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) recipients are not assigned to an Intreo or branch office, and so cannot readily be broken into these divisional areas.
Accordingly, where a county may be in two of the Department's divisions, the PUP recipient number for that county has been halved and assigned to each of the divisions concerned. Where the county is unknown, these are not included. The Deputy should also note that county breakdowns are published each week by officials in my Department at https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/f4c60c-covid-19-statistics/
|
Division |
PUP recipients on September 1st 2020 |
|
Cork |
21,096 |
|
Mid West |
23,430 |
|
South East |
19,712 |
|
West |
19,261 |
|
Midlands |
12,186 |
|
North East |
21,544 |
|
Dublin / Mid Leinster |
96,807 |
|
North West |
10,603 |
|
Unknown |
317 |
The estimated expenditure for each month of the scheme to the end of August is set out below, and is based on the month of the payment issued date. March contains one payment date; June contains 5 payment dates; the remainder contain 4 payment dates.
|
Month |
Expenditure (€m) |
|
March |
111 |
|
April |
778.8 |
|
May |
824.5 |
|
June |
859.1 |
|
July |
420.4 |
|
August |
310.4 |
|
September |
138.8 |
|
Total |
3,443 |
