The €200 Spring lump sum payment was paid to 1.3 million recipients in receipt of long-term social welfare payments. This lump sum was paid in late April and cost approximately €261 million.This support was paid on a similar basis to the Christmas Bonus, including to those on jobseeker's payments or Illness Benefit for over 12 months; with the addition of recipients of the Working Family Payment. The payment was made to primary recipients of a qualifying payment only.It is part of a range of additional Cost of Living supports, valued at over €400 million, announced in February, following on from the largest Social Protection Budget in the history of the state last September. Other supports will include a €100 Child Benefit lump sum in June and a once-off €100 increase Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance.The Increase for a Qualified Adult can be awarded to a person whose spouse/civil partner/co-habitant is being wholly or mainly maintained by them, and where that qualified adult’s personal means do not exceed a means test income limit, based on the means held solely or jointly by the qualified adult.If a person does not qualify for a social insurance payment based on their PRSI contributions, they may qualify for a means-tested social assistance payment.Any proposal to extend full social welfare benefits, to include such cost of living support payments, to adult dependents would have to be considered in a budgetary context with a view to the sustainability of the Social Insurance Fund.I trust this clarifies matters for the Deputy.