Ms Catherine Cox:

There are 500,000 family carers in Ireland. I think 93,000 of them get carer's allowance - they are full-time carers - whereas almost 125,000 of them get the carer's support grant. That has the same stipulations - for example, carers have to be caring full-time - but it is not means-tested. Therefore, we know that at least 125,000 people, give or take, should be getting the carer's allowance. Then there are carers getting a reduced rate as well.